Subject: Re: b19,20: ln -d - hard links .. ?
From: [email-masked] (Geoffrey Noer)

10 Nov 1998 07:38:46 -0800
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To: Earnie Boyd <[email-masked]>
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> Win32 doesn't do hard links!  Remember you're not on UNIX your only
> emulating it and there will be things nearly impossible and this
> will be one of them.

Hard links *are* supported by Cygwin on NTFS partitions for files.
However, Cygwin does not support hard links to directories.  Under
Windows 95, hard linking a file just results in a file copy.

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Geoffrey Noer
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