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Symbolic links.
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- Subject: Symbolic links.
- From: Jens Yllman <jens dot yllman at swipnet dot se>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 10:18:27 +0200
Hi,
setup.exe uses the old symbolic links when it installs packages. Is this
realy correct?
Then I noticed some talk about .lnk here on the list. .lnk files created
from windows may contain alot more information then a .lnk file created by
cygwin as a symbolic link.
I think that a .lnk file created by windows can not be treated as a
symbolic link in cygwin. At least not in the archiving sence.
You might say that why archive windows files with a UNIX tool? At the
moment I'm spending alot of time trying to make may programs compile with
both Borland C++, Visual C++ and gcc. And those project may contain .lnk
files that are not symbolic links in the cygwin sence. And should be
presesrved when archived.
So using the .lnk for symbolic links may be a bad choose. Using a
fileformat that can contain/handle more then one thing is not a good thing
if used in a system for only one thing.
These are just my thougts. I've not read through all the posts on this
list. So I might state something that is already clear.
Jens Yllman
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