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diff --git a/man/files.texi b/man/files.texi index 17eab9117f7..859787c3bc6 100644 --- a/man/files.texi +++ b/man/files.texi @@ -1070,6 +1070,8 @@ file, sessions are not recorded for recovery. @node File Aliases @section File Name Aliases +@cindex symbolic links (visiting) +@cindex hard links (visiting) Symbolic links and hard links both make it possible for several file names to refer to the same file. Hard links are alternate names that @@ -2859,6 +2861,7 @@ file system. On MS-DOS, it works by copying the file. the old contents of the file @var{new}. @findex make-symbolic-link +@cindex symbolic links (creation) @kbd{M-x make-symbolic-link} reads two file names @var{target} and @var{linkname}, then creates a symbolic link named @var{linkname}, which points at @var{target}. The effect is that future attempts to open file |