Mail Archives: djgpp/2004/05/11/02:37:18
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> From: m-friedrichs AT hdlresearchlab DOT com
> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:39:47 GMT
>
> I have a program called ch professional, which launches from the command
> line under win2k, and uses djpgg "ln" to create soft links which doesn't
> work.
DJGPP's `ln' supports _hard_ links (it eulates them by copying), but
soft links are supported only for executable programs.
> The vendors manual says ln - S is implemented. But does not work from the
> win2k command line(dos box). I sent a support question about this problem
> to the vendors support line, who suggested, I go to this newsgroup to get an
> answer.
I don't know what is ch professional, and how and for what purposes it
uses `ln'. Can you provide those details?
In general, symlinks are not supported on DOS/Windows systems. Cygwin
has simulated symlinks, and DJGPP introduces that support in the
development code; you could get that from the alpha/beta directories
on the DJGPP site, if you really need that.
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