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Date:	Mon, 08 Apr 2002 22:46:15 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Two small patches for the ported Fileutils 4.0
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 13:46:50 +0000
> > From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> >
> > The test suite uses hardlinks and symlinks a lot more in the test suite
> > scripts and there are a lot more tests for the hardlink and symlink
> > functionality. So it's pretty painful. :(
> 
> Can't this ne handled by replacing "ln -s" with "cp -p"?

On further inspection I found that most of the cases that try to use 'ln -s'
do tests that are not valid, when there is no symlink support. So those tests
of portions of tests can be ignored. But thanks for the suggestion.

Hopefully I'll get an alpha of Fileutils 4.1 out soon (this weekend?). Most of
the testsuite passes now (ignoring symlink issues). It's just a case of
packaging to work on plain ol' DOS and some last-minute checks.

Bye, Rich =]

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

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