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From:	"A. Alper Atici" <alperatici AT ttnet DOT net DOT tr>
Subject:	RFI: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.
Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:52:15 +0300
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Hello,

I've been pondering over the prospects of emulating hard links for
some time. List archives don't show much about it, and I have not come
across any similar open implementation on the net. 

My rudimentary idea of emulating hard links is based on employing a
new type of windows shortcut which will be regarded as a hardlinking
file, rather than a symlink, by Cygwin. For this, I hope to figure out
a possible combination in the magic bitvector byte(word?) in shortcut
header. Any comments? How about 0x1c?


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