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On 05/10/2016 05:00, Rinrin wrote:
> Hi Gene:
>   I made a patch for my private use.
>   First of all, you should setup `nativenocheck` in CYGWIN environment
> variable to enable this feature.
>   If the target does not exist, it will check the last digit of target
> path, for '/' it will create a <SYMLINKD> instead of <SYMLINK>
>
>

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