Re: [Wine]WineTools 2.0.9 released

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Am Fr, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:23:49 -0800 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:43:35 +0100, Tobias Neumann
> <tobias.neumann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:37:04 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > 
> > > Humm...OK, I know I'm not much of a Linux guy but I'm now confused. On
> > > my system, before doing any of this link stuff the directory
> > > /usr/local/bin already exists. How can I create a link of any type at
> > > location /usr/local called 'bin' when the directory already exists?
> > 
> > Firstly /usr/local/bin/ is a directory.
> > When you link a file with ln -s <sourcefile/directory> <destination-dir>
> > an link with exactly the same name as the sourcefile/directory will be
> > created in the destination directory.
> > 
> > So `ln -s /usr/local/winetools/findwine /usr/local/bin` will create a link
> > from /usr/local/bin/findwine to /usr/local/winetools/findwine.
> 
> Except it didn't on my FC2 system as the error message showed earlier...

Yes it did, but it was already there and it does not replace for your
own safety.

> And why not be explicit in the instruction anyway?

I changed the Readme for you ;-)

Regards
	Joachim
-- 
"Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system?
          Never run a touchy system!!!"
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