On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Brian Carp wrote:
>
> I may be just speculating, but I think the difference between:
>
> foo -> /var/foo
> and
> cs223 -> /home/classes/cs223/class/lai.min-ken.ml267
>
> is that the former is a sym. link into another partition, and it considers
> that subdirectory as part of your path, where as in the latter case is a
> sym. link to another subdirectory within a main directory that you're
> already in, so cd'ing will actually change your path.
>
> But I could be making that up (and I'm sure someone will enlighten me
> further...)
>
> --Carp
>
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