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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:18:46 +0200
From: Jens Reimann <reim AT pe-muc DOT de>
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To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin ln
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Chris Faylor wrote:

> 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 AT pe-muc DOT 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!"
>

sorry ... i only downloaded the "small" package :) ...

> cgf

  thx

jens reimann


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