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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:13:30 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Real symlinks
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Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> Perhaps you should implement them to be compatible with Linux' UMSDOS
> file system. In short Linux puts information that doesn't fit in FAT
> in a file called "--linux-.---" in each directory.
> 
> If you think this is something you want to do, let me know and I'll
> try to find time to examine and write down the format of this file.

UMSDOS FS support would be a nice, but optional thing. The reasons -
1) that --linux-.--- file format is more complex
2) you can move around DJGPP symlinks from DOS, and they will still
work. This is not so easy with --linux-.---

I agree that ability to use UMSDOS symlinks is good, but let's get native 
DJGPP symlinks to work at first, and then we can add aditional features,
like windows shortcuts and UMSDOS symlinks.

Laurynas Biveinis