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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:11:16 -0400
To:	"Lincoln, W. Terry" <terryl AT ultimatetechnology DOT com>
Cc:	"'Jens Reimann'" <reim AT pe-muc DOT de>,
	"'Cygwin Mailing List'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: cygwin ln
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In-Reply-To:	<B3953869CBF8D211A1E50004AC4C1B5402F444@ULTIMATE2>; from Lincoln, W. Terry on Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:00:50AM -0400

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 AT pe-muc DOT 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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