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From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
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Subject: Re: Fun with symlinks?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:17:12 +1000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:12 PM

> That's a problem of setup.exe which doesn't understand that there's
> a symlink of the Windows shortcut type (*.lnk) is in the way.
> Setup should actually remove the symlink when creating the real
> file.

Hmm, I thought we had patched setup to handle this. mmm.

Rob


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