Subject: Re: Problem with symbolic links in b18
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

4 Feb 1998 10:19:54 -0800
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The symbolic links created from the ln command from cygwin32 is not know 
to the win32 world outside of cygwin32.

>From: "David Gasul" <[email-masked]>
>To: <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Problem with symbolic links in b18
>Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:29:38 +0200
>
>Hi,
>
>Here's a problem I encountered with symbolic links:
>
>1. Assume you have a DOS executable in directory c:\xxx called yyy.exe.
>2. Assume bash is run from directory c:\zzz.
>3. Enter bash
>4. Do "ln -s c:\xxx\yyy.exe yyy.exe".
>5. Verify that there's a file "yyy.exe" in c:\zzz.
>6. Run yyy.exe from bash - everything works fine.
>7. Now exit bash.
>8. Run yyy.exe. You get a window telling you that the program has =
>performed an illegal operation.
>    Opening the details button says that the program tried to execute 
an =
>illegal instruction=20
>    at 1F00:8AC3.
>
>Cheers,
>Dave
>
>

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