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Re: Virtual directory names beginning with '.'

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Markopoulos)
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Matthew Markopoulos wrote:
> 
> Hi - I have a problem changing to virtual directories cattached under a
> name beginning with '.'. OS is Linux 2.0.38, CFS 1.3.3, bash 2.03; CFS
> mounted as follows:
> [...]

I solved this myself. The problem was the 'physical' shell option. With
this set, bash doesn't follow symbolic links.

Matthew Markopoulos

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