[Courses] [FS] Lesson 2 - Symlinks Question

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On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 11:04 America/Indianapolis, Travis Casey 
wrote:
> Someone wanting to go from there to /usr/bin might type
>
> cd ../../bin
>
> but that would error, since /home/cs20/systems/sun4x/solaris/usr/bin
> did not exist.  They'd think "WTF?  I know /usr/bin exists!  If it
> didn't the system wouldn't work!"  They'd then either start trying to
> investigate and (1) realize what was going on, or (2) get enormously
> confused, or (3) call or email Systems and report that something's
> wrong.

the "fudged" cd won't help... as far as i know, while ".." is a special 
case, "../" or "../../bin" by extension, are not.

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it ;P