Re: [SLUG] Virtual Folder

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jun 23 2004 - 15:46:29 EDT


On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Eric Jahn wrote:

> On Wed June 23 2004 2:58 pm, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> > lndir is probably what you want. lndir comes with X11.
>
> I just tried lndir on your suggestion and it appears to work well, but it must
> continually be kept in sync with the "from" directory, which adds a lot of
> complexity. ln -s I guess is what I want, but KDE doesn't see that ln-s
> created link as a folder, but rather as a file, which causes problems because
> I can't save a file to a destination it thinks is a also a file (when it's
> actually a link to a directory).

Try saving it to "linkname/" or "linkname/." if you (can) specify it as
text. If you are limited to specifying it graphically, no idea.

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