Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:13:32PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Ordinarily, no. Generally it's not symlinks that affect the behavior of
> a program.
Programs actually *can* be written to honor the name with which they
are called, e.g. joe does.
lux:~> file /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/jmacs
/usr/bin/joe: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
/usr/bin/jmacs: symbolic link to joe
Try running those two -- their shortcuts are quite different...
Christoph
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