Your tip certainly helped me, Michael, and actually your example _made_
me change to  /backup/ instead og ./backup, since the old directory path
was painfully long...

Thank you for helping me.

;-Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 15. maj 2002 03:12
To: Bernhard R. Erdmann
Cc: Peter Normann; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Following symlinks 



>>>>> "Bernhard" == Bernhard R Erdmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
    >> reference the files as:
    >> 
    >> /.backup/whatever/.
    >> 
    >> The trailing /. will force the symlink to get dereferenced.

    Bernhard> Didn't you mean ./backup/whatever/.?

  I read that he had created the symlinks in /.backup/, but ...
whatever.

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