From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: b19,20: ln -d - hard links .. ?
10 Nov 1998 07:38:46 -0800 :
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To:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> Win32 doesn't do hard links!  Remember you're not on UNIX your only
> emulating it and there will be things nearly impossible and this
> will be one of them.

Hard links *are* supported by Cygwin on NTFS partitions for files.
However, Cygwin does not support hard links to directories.  Under
Windows 95, hard linking a file just results in a file copy.

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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