Re: emacs install problem

["Gareth Pearce" <tilps at hotmail dot com>]

> 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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