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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
.Sh NAME
.Nm ln ,
.Nm link
-.Nd make links
+.Nd link files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl s Op Fl F
@@ -57,8 +57,13 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-utility creates a new directory entry (linked file) which has the
-same modes as the original file.
+utility creates a new directory entry (linked file) for the file name
+specified by
+.Ar target_file .
+The
+.Ar target_file
+will be created with the same file modes as the
+.Ar source_file .
It is useful for maintaining multiple copies of a file in many places
at once without using up storage for the
.Dq copies ;
@@ -148,7 +153,7 @@ links.
A hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original directory entry;
any changes to a file are effectively independent of the name used to reference
the file.
-Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems.
+Directories may not be hardlinked, and hard links may not span file systems.
.Pp
A symbolic link contains the name of the file to
which it is linked.
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