[TAG] LN -- have I gone brain dead?

[Bob van der Poel]

I'm trying to do something pretty simple, I thought, and am near the 
"tear out my hair" stage ... All I want to do is to create a symbolic 
link to an existing directory:

	bob$ ln -s tmp foo
	bob$ ls -l foo
	lrwxrwxrwx  1 bob bob 3 Dec  1 15:21 foo -> tmp/

No, foo is not a link to tmp. Well, it sort of is

	bob$ file foo
	foo: symbolic link to `tmp'


But,

	bob$ ls foo
	foo@

doen't give me a listing of the contents of tmp. Ummm, what am I doing 
wrong here?????

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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
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