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  &lt;title>Basic Hyperlinks&lt;/title>
  &lt;base href="/~sultans/html/demo/2links/">
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  &lt;p>Use a &lt;b>relative URL&lt;/b> to visit another page within the same site &lt;a href="2title.html">Click Here&lt;/a> &lt;/p>

  &lt;p>Use an &lt;b>absolute URL&lt;/b> to visit Sam Sultan's home page &lt;a href="http://www.samsultan.com/">Sam's Home Page&lt;/a> &lt;/p>
  
  &lt;p>Take a look at the list of files in the &lt;b>current directory&lt;/b> &lt;a href=".">using .&lt;/a> 

  &lt;p>Take a look at the list of files in the &lt;b>parent directory&lt;/b> &lt;a href="..">using ..&lt;/a> 
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