Two simple questions

[Jason Clinton]

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>TWO:   
>Should I be able to make a symbolic link:     where both files 
>“pointer”  and “pointee”  are in the same directory  but I create the
>link while in another directory.     I know this is really must be
>really  basic but I can’t  seem to make it work.  The “pointer” file
>always seems to end on in the current working directory or it doesn’t
>point to “pointee”  correctly .     I did have some luck if I tried
>hard links but I would rather have smbolics
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> The two questions are related.  I only need to utilize one of the answers.
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/foo/bar # ln -s /foo/bee/hello1 /foo/bee/hello2 works for me.