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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:50:55 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Patch to features.txi about symlink
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Watch the double-space between sentences ;-).

Oh no... Double-nightmare ;-) Emacs docs say this is
American convention. Surely not Lithuanian.

> Perhaps it's a good idea to mention that the symlinks are compatible
> with Cygwin (if they indeed are).

They aren't. Although both use the same !<symlink> signature, CygWin
symlinks are variable sized, and have special attribute combination.
My symlinks were compatible a year ago, but that attribute combination
only helps to bloat FAQs and introduce incompatibilities. So we've 
switched.

I've commited this patch with fixes by Martin and Eli. Thanks.

Bottom line: sometimes I want to put together relevant pieces from
djgpp-workers archive and write up article about symlink motivation,
design, etc. But that's far fetched, and currently I cannot complain
of having nothing to do.

Laurynas