Wat is a Soft Link?
 

Hi, I was wondering what a soft link is and how you make one becuz i need to make one for my installation of aureal sound card drivers in Mandrake 9.1. Any help plz?

A soft link (or symbolic link) is just a way of accessing files (or directories) without moving them. You just have to associate the path of the file with a special type of file (a link) which will lead you directly to it. It is called soft by comparison to a hard link which has different properties.

For more details,
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?soft+link

Hope this helps!

ok, thx it worked