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Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt
- From: tuli tanssi <tulitanssi at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:47:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt
> Will Windows junctions (for the path; plus the file name) work, here, Andy?
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx)
>
> (Admittedly, a kludge, but this is Windows, after all. ;-))
>
> Lee
Actually, in Windows 7, Microsoft has implemented true symbolic links
(as far as I know).
Maybe it is also in Vista?
Anyway, is that (microsoft's true symlinks) feature used in cygwin 1.7?
Apparently not, since it would solve my problem.
Tuli
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