Subject: Re: link cmd
From: [email-masked] (Larry Hall)

30 Oct 1998 18:45:48 -0800
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To: Christian Mathieu <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>

At 05:00 PM 10/28/98 +0000, Christian Mathieu wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm using B19 gnuwin32 on a NT machine. When i try to link from a remote file
>to a local file as in
>ln -s //l/build/toto/foo.c /build/foo.c    the link works
>but if i edit the file i only have
>!<symlink>//l/build/toto/foo.c instead of the file. How can i have the contents
>of the file without copying the file ?
>
>Thanks in advance and
>best regards
>
>Christian Mathieu
>
>[email-masked]
>Tel (33) 4 9211 5896

Symbolic links only work for Cygwin-enabled applications.  What application
are you using to "edit" the file?  Was it compiled against cygwinb19.dll?

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