ok, thanks, I did\'nt know it was first develloped on windows ...
thanks, the symlins works, but for me (debian stable) :
ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so /usr/lib/libXaw.so.8
symlink = \"symboly link\" = \"a type of true \'shortcut\' for a file that is really powerfull\" :
under windows, you only have 1 type of sepcial files : the dirrectory, and a shortcut is just a binary&text file with a .lnk extention. each program needs to be able to understand them itself for them to work, and that exlains a lots of bugs / shortcuts not working.
under Unix, you have plenty of types of special files, and one of them is \"symbolic link\" : a symbolic link can be seen as a shortcut to another file, but is managed by Unixes kernels. Thus, under Linux, when a program open a symbolic link, Linux make it open the target file instead. (To use a technical word : it is transparent for the programmer and for the user).
the Unix (and thus Linux) command to create links is ln
(you need to had -s to the ln command in order to create a simbolic link, overwise, you give 2 different names to the same file)
(and I know : you\'ll tell me GNU)