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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:12:00 -0500
To:	Chris Jefferson <caj AT cs DOT york DOT ac DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: NTFS links
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At 01:14 PM 2/12/2004, Chris Jefferson you wrote:
>Cygwin includes quite a number of  symlinks. I personally have changed a number of the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones to fix (as has been mentioned recently) the problem that cygwin-style symlinks don't work from cmd
>
>Would it be possible to automagically change all the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones? is there anything I should watch for if I attempted such a thing?


Setup creates the "old-style" symlinks.  A patch to it that creates
"new-style" is one way of automagically doing this.  A script could be
concocted too. 'ln -s' creates the "new-style" by default.



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