From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 12: 0:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CEE37B404 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B306243E42 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:00:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (e86b94fb6ae5197904f9c45a6706f01e@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g98J1Jho012482; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g98J1JEa012481; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:01:19 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Peter Leftwich , SweeTLeaF , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: help with ln "linking" Please! [attn manpage authors!] Message-ID: <20021008190119.GY81796@vectors.cx> References: <20021008011209.B35848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> (10.08.2002 @ 1151 PST): Gary W. Swearingen said, in 1.4K: << > How about this: ln [-fhinsv] source_filename [link_filename] > > I just TRY to remember them as being bassackwards from the more natural > order of "ls": link -> source i still stand by my method: the file you want the command to create comes last. > Anybody else have terms they'd prefer the manual use in both the > SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION? how about ln [-fhinsv] link_to [link_from] -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message