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From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs install problem
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 03:38:52 +0000
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>Eh?
>
>All my file systems are NTFS and hence support hard links.
>
>But I really don't see what that's got to do with the fact that most, if 
>not all of Emacs did not install on my system.

putting hard links in a cygwin distribution package is a bad idea all the 
same I would think (especially for win9x'ers).  Possibly could break things 
in unexpected ways.

Gareth
>
>Randall
>
>
>At 19:35 2002-08-13, you wrote:
>
>
>
>>>Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>>
>>>>% find /usr /lib -iname '*emacs*'
>>>>/usr/share/enscript/emacs.hdr
>>>>/usr/share/enscript/hl/style_emacs.st
>>>>/usr/share/enscript/hl/style_emacs_verbose.st
>>>>/usr/share/guile/1.5.6/ice-9/emacs.scm
>>>>/usr/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/ntemacs.html
>>>
>>>You're missing all sorts of stuff -- there should be quite a large
>>>collection of files with emacs in the name.
>>>
>>>The various emacs executable files are hard-linked together,
>>>perhaps that's the problem?
>>
>>hard links dont work in win9x - I am fairly sure.
>>
>>Use symlinks is better idea.
>>
>>Gareth
>
>
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