On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 01:08 PM, Kevin Stone wrote:
> Thanks for proving the point. It's like I said. No one is willing to > explain what symbolic links are. -Kevin Actually, if you inspect the message I sent you (it's quoted below), you'll see that the specific part of your original post that I quoted is the part about how difficult it is to find information on them, and why no one seems to explain them. I never intended to explain them to you, because I thought that someone else on the list had already taken care of that. If you're still curious, the following document explains all about the filesystem used on Unix -- and is very readable (not some obscure technical document). Please read it: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals- HOWTO/disk-layout.html This is part of Eric Raymond's "Unix and Internet Fundamentals" How-To document. Even for people who really could care less about Unix, it explains pretty much how computers work in general. I found it very informative when I first set about learning everything there is to know about computers. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/ HTH, Erik >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:41 AM >> To: Kevin Stone >> Subject: Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the >> browser? >> >> >> On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Kevin Stone wrote: >> >>> I did a net wide search on Symbolic links to learn what they are and > how >>> to use them. Wouldn't you know everyone's talking about them but no > one >>> explains what they are or how to use them. >> >> It's because it's a very common thing in Unix, about as basic as copy >> and paste is in Windows. And Unix is the widest-used platform on the >> web, so a lot of web people are familiar with it. I'm not sure what > the >> Windows equivalent is. >> >> HTH, >> >> >> - Erik >> ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
