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Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe


On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote:
>One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition)
>involves upgrades.  I changed the symlink for ksh.exe -> pdksh.exe to a hard
>link.  When an new version of pdksh was installed, it resulted in two non
>linked files.  I had the new version as psksh.exe and the old version as
>ksh.exe.

Huh.  I wonder why that happened.  I would expect setup.exe to just
overwrite one file, resulting in the change being reflected in the
linked copy.

I'm no longer familiar enough with setup's internals to say for sure
if that is what happening but it does appear that the file is being
deleted.  That behavior could probably be changed with an appropriate
PTC.

cgf

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