From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	Re: link cmd
30 Oct 1998 18:45:48 -0800 :
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To:	Christian Mathieu <mathieu AT fr DOT ibm DOT com>, <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

At 05:00 PM 10/28/98 +0000, Christian Mathieu wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm using B19 gnuwin32 on a NT machine. When i try to link from a remote file
>to a local file as in
>ln -s //l/build/toto/foo.c /build/foo.c    the link works
>but if i edit the file i only have
>!<symlink>//l/build/toto/foo.c instead of the file. How can i have the contents
>of the file without copying the file ?
>
>Thanks in advance and
>best regards
>
>Christian Mathieu
>
>mathieu AT fr DOT ibm DOT com
>Tel (33) 4 9211 5896


Symbolic links only work for Cygwin-enabled applications.  What application
are you using to "edit" the file?  Was it compiled against cygwinb19.dll?


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