Subject: Re: cygwin ln
From: Chris Faylor <[email-masked]>
To: "Lincoln, W. Terry" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Jens Reimann'" <[email-masked]>, "'Cygwin Mailing List'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:11:16 -0400

On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:00:50AM -0400, Lincoln, W. Terry wrote:
>
>
>> 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

Another answer to this question is "Use the source, Luke!"

cgf

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