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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:48:19 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:16:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> ntea relies on a set of win32 functions available to NT family only.
>
>Yes, but as I asked -- is that necessary?  I mean, if it will require a
>full rewrite of the ntea functionality, then NT is certainly a
>prerequisite.

I don't get what you are asking when you say "Is that necessary?"   Are
you suggesting that someone could emulate NTEA functionality in cygwin
on 9x/Me?

cgf

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