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On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >Chris, > >Chris Faylor wrote: >> If I am understanding what you're saying correctly, you are essentially >> trying to break cygwin's encapsulation of symlinks. There is no >> guarantee that a symlink will always begin with "!<symlink>" or >> even that the contents will contain any kind of magic denoting a symlink. > >That is why I called it a "very nasty hack." I'm try to elicit the >proper way to read the (raw) contents of a Cygwin symlink file -- if >one exists. Sounds like one doesn't. Actually, my version of zip for cygwin has a '-y' option that stores symlinks and unzip seems to restore them correctly. So, this is at least possible already. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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