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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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