Re: creating a c: filename

[Virgo Pärna <virgo.parna@mail.ee>]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:37:33 +0100, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> My Notes client under WINE setup needs to configure a directory called 
> dosdevice which needs to be populated by symlinks to the filesystem.
> 
> These symlinks must be called c: d: etc
> 
> I am not able to understand how can I create such "wierd" names.
> 

    For me it just works 

dragon:~/test> la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 virgo    users        4096 dets  21 11:40 .
drwxr-xr-x   66 virgo    users        4096 dets  21 11:40 ..
dragon:~/test> touch blaah
dragon:~/test> la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 virgo    users        4096 dets  21 11:40 .
drwxr-xr-x   66 virgo    users        4096 dets  21 11:40 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 virgo    users           0 dets  21 11:40 blaah
dragon:~/test> ln -s blaah c:
dragon:~/test> ln -s /dev/hda d:
dragon:~/test> la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 virgo    users        4096 dets  21 11:40 .
drwxr-xr-x   66 virgo    users        4096 dets  21 11:40 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 virgo    users           0 dets  21 11:40 blaah
lrwxrwxrwx    1 virgo    users           5 dets  21 11:40 c: -> blaah
lrwxrwxrwx    1 virgo    users           8 dets  21 11:40 d: -> /dev/hda

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Virgo Pärna 
virgo.parna@mail.ee