From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: Problem with symbolic links in b18
5 Feb 1998 16:55:19 -0800
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At 03:16 AM 2/5/98 GMT, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>In article <052201bd316e$33481ed0$2a0110ac AT sam DOT ethernet>,
>Samuel James Liddicott  <sam AT campbellsci DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Gasul <davidg AT telegate DOT co DOT il>
>>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>>Date: 04 February 1998 13:02
>>Subject: Problem with symbolic links in b18
>>
>>
>>    Hi,
>>
>>    Here's a problem I encountered with symbolic links:

<snip>

>>    This is because your are now running yyy.exe from c:\zzz, and this
>>yyy.exe is not a real exe file, but one of your cygwin shortcuts that
>>windows doesn't like.
>
>Ah.  I smell a discussion of why we can/can't/ought-to use Win95, WinN% 4.0
>shortcuts in place of cygwin symbolic links coming...
>
>After all it has been several weeks.
>-- 
>http://www.bbc.com/	cgf AT bbc DOT com			"Strange how unreal
>VMS=>UNIX Solutions	Boston Business Computing	 the real can be."

Ah, good!  I'd much rather have another round of lengthy discussions about
this topic than actually have somebody take it upon themselves to address
the issue!  This is one of those things that I'm almost tempted to change
myself, even though it is never an issue for me!!




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