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Subject:	1.7 (an previous) ln bug
Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:56:40 -0400
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Using winsymlinks, it seems that if you create a symbolic link to a
non-existent file, the POSIX target gets set, but the Windows target
does not.  The cygpath command will return a valid Windows path for the
non-existent file, so that should be used for the Windows target value.
It doesn't make sense that the ln would only work partially.  Thanks!

Dave


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