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Re: mount type, compiler barf, and sym links
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
- Subject: Re: mount type, compiler barf, and sym links
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:00:16 -0700
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <19981019121004.10517.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com>
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.
[...]
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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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