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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:11:16 -0400
To: "Lincoln, W. Terry" <terryl@ultimatetechnology.com>
Cc: "'Jens Reimann'" <reim@pe-muc.de>,
        "'Cygwin Mailing List'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: cygwin ln
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In-Reply-To: <B3953869CBF8D211A1E50004AC4C1B5402F444@ULTIMATE2>; from Lincoln, W. Terry on Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:00:50AM -0400

On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:00:50AM -0400, Lincoln, W. Terry wrote:
>
>
>> From: 
>On Wednesday, August 25, 1999 5:09 AM Jens Reimann [mailto:reim@pe-muc.de]
>wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>Hello Jens
>> 
>> do you have some information how the ln command under cygwin 
>> works (can you really create symbolic links??) ...
>Symbolic links are just regular text file that contain a magic and the file
>name linked to.  They are recognized by having there SYS attribute set only
>by Cygwin tools.  The actual contents  of the symlink file for: ln
>subdir/foo.txt bar.txt
>is this:
>---- begin file contents bar.txt
>!<symlink>subdir/foo.txt\0
>---- end file contents bar.txt

Another answer to this question is "Use the source, Luke!"

cgf

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