From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject:	Re: Use the native Symlinks.
24 Aug 1998 14:20:54 GMT :
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In article <35E04A22 DOT 6971 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT telegenisys DOT com>,
Henry J. Cobb <hcobb AT telegenisys DOT com> wrote:
>Why add the concepts of hard and soft links to an operating system that
>already has soft links?  (And that's all you need really, if you drop
>the flawed concept that the "operating environment" can hide the true
>line end markers.)
>
>What symbolic links on eNp-Ty?  They're called shortcuts here.
>
>Simply tune the DLL to parse whatever.lnk files and treat them the same
>as Posixstan symbolic links and change the LN.EXE program to create
>shortcuts.
>
>The result is a "filesystem tree" that's browsable from both the GNU
>and eNp-Ty sides.

Check out the mailing list archive.  You're not the first person to
bring this up.
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