Making a hard link

I am a first year Linux student and in my first month using Linux. Today in class I tried to create a hard link from my home directory to a file about 4 directories away from my home directory using the command: ln /home/myhomedirectoryname/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/file newfilename. When I went to the GUI, I noticed that it created a file with the newfilename with a # in front and a # in the back of it looked like #newfilename#. Why did it do this? Thank you for your help!! _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com