From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: pb with ln -s
17 Nov 1998 23:50:08 -0800
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To: Chris <Christine DOT Pourcelot AT inria DOT fr>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---Chris <Christine DOT Pourcelot AT inria DOT fr> wrote:
>
> Hi there
> I got a problem with 'ln -s' to create symbolic links :
> for example, I've got a file toto and I do 'ln -s toto titi'
> when I do 'cat titi', I get "!<symlink>toto"
> can anybody help me ?

You are obviously executing a version of cat which is a non-cygwin
binary.  To find out where the cat is being executed from do the bash
command `type -a cat'.  This will show you all of the possibilities
that reside on the PATH, the first one listed will be the one being
executed.

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