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Re: mount type, compiler barf, and sym links


I included a lot of your explanation in the FAQ.  Hopefully it will
help answer this more thoroughly in the future...
-gjn

On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 05:10:04AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> The real problem lies in the way that UNIX vs WIN32 create files.  To
> UNIX a file is a file and what the file contains is what ever the
> program/programmer/user told it to put into it.  To WIN32 a file is
> also a file and what the file contains depends not only on the
> program/programmer/user but also the file processing mode.  
[...]

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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