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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:02:00PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 10:54:29PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>> John and Holly Klug wrote:
>>>>> Is there a utility for cygwin that can list NTFS junction points?  
>>>>> Perhaps an option for find?  I am interested in junctions that are not 
>>>>> on the same partition.
>>>> No, there is no Cygwin utility that is conscious of junction points.
>>> And that's basically because there isn't any linux utility that is 
>>> conscious
>>> of junction points.
>>>
>>> Why do I get the feeling that people are consistently missing the point of
>>> this project?
>> Maybe it would help if you could start by explaining what Linux is.  It's
>> like DOS but with more features, right?
> 
> Yes.  Think "OS/2" and you won't be too far right.


Ahhh, I get it.  Too bad Linux isn't more like Unix...

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