Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20020716154156.82488.qmail@web21009.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:41:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el To: David Starks-Browning , Matt Swift Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <2160-Tue16Jul2002163810+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- David Starks-Browning wrote: > On Tuesday 16 Jul 02, Matt Swift writes: > > Porting Emacs to Cygwin is no small job. Meanwhile, many need to use > > NTEmacs with Cygwin with as much efficiency as is available. > > > > I see that the Cygwin sources have been changed back to gunzip being a > > symlink. > > > > What about a hard link? It seems to be the best of both worlds. No > > more disk space and no problems with symlnks. I've tried it and it > > works well so far. > > I do not believe that is possible on Win9x. > > IMO, a separate copy of the file is the friendliest choice for Windows > apps like GNU Emacs. But it's up to the gzip maintainer. If the gzip > maintainer chooses not to do this, GNU Emacs users will have to work > around it somehow. Full stop. > You are right, WinME/9X doesn't support "hard links", nor does NT with FAT/FAT32 formatted drives. Geeze, try this: rm -f /bin/gzip.exe; cp -f /bin/gunzip.exe /bin/gzip.exe Now was that hard? No. Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/