From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: symbolic links
8 Mar 1997 09:47:12 -0800
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At 10:57 AM 3/7/97 -0700, Basim Kadhim wrote:
>The FAQ indicates that you can't execute a link or follow it as a directory.
>Is this going to continue to be the case or is it the intention that this
>will eventually change?
>
>We have tried porting the Eli compiler construction system to NT using the
>toolset.  The major stumbling block appears to be the problems with
>symbolic links.
>
>-- 
>Basim Kadhim					kadhim@cs.colorado.edu
>University of Colorado, Boulder
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There's a patch available from 
http://wwwdim.uqac.uquebec.ca/ftp/pub/gnuwin32/patches/ that is supposed to 
fix this problem, if you want to build it.  I haven't tried it yet
myself....

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