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symlink - create a symbolic link to a file
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symlink
<FONT SIZE=-1>OLDFILE,NEWFILE</FONT>
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Creates a new filename symbolically linked to the old filename. Returns <CODE>1</CODE> for success, <CODE>0</CODE> otherwise. On systems that don't support symbolic links, produces a fatal
error at run time. To check for that, use eval:
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<PRE> $symlink_exists = eval { symlink("",""); 1 };
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