Date:	Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:26:27 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP 2.04 status page updates: more to-dos, priorities
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> Why don't we switch to the new format?  It says it's Win compatible
> on windows systems (.lnk)

The current format in DJGPP was selected to not cause any expensive I/O 
operations in standard functions like `stat' and the likes.  That's why 
the symlink file has a fixed length.  Is the new Cygwin format compatible 
with that, i.e. does it create fixed-size files?

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