[NTLUG:Discuss] Stupid Question

cbbrowne@hex.net cbbrowne at hex.net
Thu Apr 26 17:06:07 CDT 2001


On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:00:38 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
sysmail at glade.net  said:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, George E. Lass wrote:
> > ln -s /dev/null c:\windows

> I tried this, and it didn't work.  Should I have escaped the backslash, as
> in:
> 
> ln -s /dev/null c:\\windows
> 
> I still don't think this is what I'm after.  It just seems symbolic,
> somehow.

Somehow, I think the word you should be thinking about is "ironic," not
"symbolic."

It's a joke... It won't do anything useful. The joke being that it's
redundant to say "won't do anything useful" in conjunction with
Windows...
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