Mail Archives: djgpp/2004/05/11/11:30:34
> > 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 emulates 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?
Ch professional is a Unix type 'c' shell which has implemented a 'c'
interpreter which is ANSI 'c' compliant. since the source is ANSI 'c'
complaint, it makes for a tool that runs your 'c' source and can easily be
compiled. This is the vendors claim.
Soft links are a utility that allows you to use a folder as a pointer to a
different folder. A nice utility to use. Unix folders are set as their
"standard goes", but with soft links you can point the standard folders to
some other named folder, even on a different drive.
example:
One of the folders under the root system in unix is /tmp, but I have my tmp
directory setup on a different drive.
So i execute "ln -s g:/win2k/tmp /tmp". The /tmp folder remains empty, but
a "ls /tmp" list the files in g:/win2k/tmp. Makes for convenient directory
organization.
> 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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