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From:	"Michael Honeyfield" <michael AT compucon DOT co DOT nz>
To:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
References:	<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1021024075710 DOT 26606C-100000 AT is>
Subject:	Re: fileutils and symlinks
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:29:59 +1300
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Thank you for the reply. This is great news :) One other question on the
same topic, Will this work for network drives? I mean will I be able to
symlink say F:\install\scripts\winxppro.sp1\i386 to c:\i386 ? or am I
expecting to much of DOS ? Thank in advance.

Cheers
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Michael Honeyfield" <michael AT compucon DOT co DOT nz>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: fileutils and symlinks


>
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Michael Honeyfield wrote:
>
> > Fileutils, using the ln can I
> > create symlinks to directories, like I can in *nix? or does it work only
to
> > and absolute file only?
>
> Currently, DJGPP supports symlinks ("ln -s") for executable programs
> only.  Hard links are simulated by copying, but that doesn't work with
> directories.
>
> A future DJGPP release will support simulated symlinks for any file,
> including a directory.

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