Subject: Re: emacs install problem
From: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
To: Gareth Pearce <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 14 Aug 2002 13:41:21 +1000

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 13:38, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >Eh?
> >
> >All my file systems are NTFS and hence support hard links.
> >
> >But I really don't see what that's got to do with the fact that most, if 
> >not all of Emacs did not install on my system.
> 
> putting hard links in a cygwin distribution package is a bad idea all the 
> same I would think (especially for win9x'ers).  Possibly could break things 
> in unexpected ways.

Hard links *should* be just fine. setup should make copies of files that
are hardlinks.

Rob