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[Chris Goedde]

Bruno, maybe if you gave an example of what goes wrong, or what
you think is not working, that would help.

Here's an example of my doing what (I think) you want to do, with my
comments interpersed (using the TeX comment character :-)). In it, I create
a link called TestLink to an existing directory Test.

% List files in current directory

blah:~ foo$ ls -l
total 0
drwx------   4 foo  foo   136 20 Aug 09:28 Desktop
drwx------  15 foo  foo   510 19 Aug 17:01 Documents
drwx------  30 foo  foo  1020  4 Aug 17:16 Library
drwx------   3 foo  foo   102 16 Jul 09:26 Movies
drwx------   5 foo  foo   170 21 Jul 17:16 Music
drwx------   3 foo  foo   102 16 Jul 09:26 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x   4 foo  foo   136 16 Jul 09:26 Public
drwxr-xr-x   5 foo  foo   170 16 Jul 09:26 Sites

% Create directory Test

blah:~ foo$ mkdir Test

% Create file TempFile in Test

blah:~ foo$ touch Test/TempFile

% Create link TestLink to directory Test

blah:~ foo$ ln -s Test TestLink

% List files again, notice that TestLink is a link to Test

blah:~ foo$ ls -l 
total 8
drwx------   4 foo  foo   136 20 Aug 09:28 Desktop
drwx------  15 foo  foo   510 19 Aug 17:01 Documents
drwx------  30 foo  foo  1020  4 Aug 17:16 Library
drwx------   3 foo  foo   102 16 Jul 09:26 Movies
drwx------   5 foo  foo   170 21 Jul 17:16 Music
drwx------   3 foo  foo   102 16 Jul 09:26 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x   4 foo  foo   136 16 Jul 09:26 Public
drwxr-xr-x   5 foo  foo   170 16 Jul 09:26 Sites
drwxr-xr-x   3 foo  foo   102 20 Aug 09:34 Test
lrwxr-xr-x   1 foo  foo     4 20 Aug 09:34 TestLink -> Test

% List the files in the "directory" TestLink

blah:~ foo$ ls -l TestLink
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 foo  foo  0 20 Aug 09:34 TempFile

Chris
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