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Subject:	Re: Support planned for vista symbolic links?
Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:34:21 -0800
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> [..] The next major Cygwin release will be able to read
> native NTFS symlinks and treats them as symlinks.  However, it's not
> planned to utilize native NTFS symlinks when creating symlinks in Cygwin.

Actually, that sounds perfect. The main thing is to recognize them as 
symlinks. Thanks!


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