cygwin ln
Chris Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Aug 25 09:09:00 GMT 1999
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:00:50AM -0400, Lincoln, W. Terry wrote:
>
>
>> From:
>On Wednesday, August 25, 1999 5:09 AM Jens Reimann [ mailto:reim@pe-muc.de ]
>wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>Hello Jens
>>
>> do you have some information how the ln command under cygwin
>> works (can you really create symbolic links??) ...
>Symbolic links are just regular text file that contain a magic and the file
>name linked to. They are recognized by having there SYS attribute set only
>by Cygwin tools. The actual contents of the symlink file for: ln
>subdir/foo.txt bar.txt
>is this:
>---- begin file contents bar.txt
>!<symlink>subdir/foo.txt\0
>---- end file contents bar.txt
Another answer to this question is "Use the source, Luke!"
cgf
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