Subject: RE: cygwin ln
From: "Lincoln, W. Terry" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Jens Reimann'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Cygwin Mailing List'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:00:50 -0400

> From: 
On Wednesday, August 25, 1999 5:09 AM Jens Reimann [mailto:[email-masked]]
wrote:
> 
> Hi
Hello Jens
> 
> do you have some information how the ln command under cygwin 
> works (can you really create symbolic links??) ...
Symbolic links are just regular text file that contain a magic and the file
name linked to.  They are recognized by having there SYS attribute set only
by Cygwin tools.  The actual contents  of the symlink file for: ln
subdir/foo.txt bar.txt
is this:
---- begin file contents bar.txt
!<symlink>subdir/foo.txt\0
---- end file contents bar.txt
> 
> thx
You're welcome.
> 
> Jens Reimann
> 

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