Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:15:32 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Real symlinks for DJGPP?
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Alain Magloire wrote:

> : I think we need to see the advantages of this before we can decide if 
> : this is worth the hassle.  Can you tell what will we gain?
> 
> Disks space ?

I don't think that, in these days of cheap disks, this should be an 
issue.

> I suppose inode, are not available so one could quickly check the type
> of the file.

inodes *are* available in DJGPP, but since the filesystem doesn't really 
support links, they won't help.