From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: ln -s (fileutils 4.1)
Date:	Mon, 01 Jul 2002 22:27:21 +0100
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Hello.

Jason Hood wrote:
[snip]
> I recently upgraded to fileutils 4.1, but now ln -s says symbolic links
> are not supported.

Yes, that's true.

Fileutils 4.1 does behave differently to fileutils 4.0. Consider the
following:

    touch a
    ln -s a b

4.0 would create a program called 'b.exe' which would try to run 'a.exe'. In
some cases this would do what you want. I will restore this functionality in
the next release of Fileutils 4.1, whenever that happens.

Thanks for the bug report. Regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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