From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: ln -s (fileutils 4.1) Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 22:27:21 +0100 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3D20C939.3733A722@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> References: <3D1FD73B DOT 9DE16ED2 AT yahoo DOT com DOT au> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-57.indium.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news7.svr.pol.co.uk 1025560642 4714 62.136.40.57 (1 Jul 2002 21:57:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Jul 2002 21:57:22 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. Jason Hood wrote: [snip] > I recently upgraded to fileutils 4.1, but now ln -s says symbolic links > are not supported. Yes, that's true. Fileutils 4.1 does behave differently to fileutils 4.0. Consider the following: touch a ln -s a b 4.0 would create a program called 'b.exe' which would try to run 'a.exe'. In some cases this would do what you want. I will restore this functionality in the next release of Fileutils 4.1, whenever that happens. Thanks for the bug report. Regards, -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]