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Date:	Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:08:03 -0400
To:	Rui-Tao Dong <rdong AT newport DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin running from CD and symlinks
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At 04:00 PM 10/2/2000, Rui-Tao Dong wrote:

>I am trying do the following.  I would like to put the Cygwin tree
>together with XFree86, XEmacs and Xvnc (which I use as an Xserver) on
>a CD.  I can pop it into a windows machine (issue a few mount commands
>if necessary) and get an instant Unix environment.  However, I have
>problem with symlinks.  Cygwin 1.14 doesn't seem to understand
>symbolic links on a CD I made with mkisofs -J -L -r on a Linux Box,
>while 1.12 works fine.
>
>-- 
>
>Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} <ruitao AT home DOT com>, Mission Viejo, California



Sorry but this isn't enough information to help you determine why this is 
the case.  However, if you edit the symlink file itself in notepad or
some editor that doesn't grok Cygwin, you'll see the symlink you created 
and this may help you determine why you don't see what you expect to see.



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