From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com (jeffdb)
Subject: Re: Use the native Symlinks.
26 Aug 1998 11:24:26 -0700
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As soon as you write the interface to CoInitialize
and CreateShortcut so that cygnus can use them
in their headers, ie. WITHOUT reading or referenceing
the MS headers in any way, JUST from the MS documentation,
And you assign your copyright, to the FSF.
You are welcome to contribute the changes that would
be needed to make shortcuts work ;^)

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 09:58:10 -0700, you wrote:

>Why add the concepts of hard and soft links to an operating system that
>already
>has soft links? (And that's all you need really, if you drop the flawed
>concept that
>the "operating environment" can hide the true line end markers.)
>
>What symbolic links on eNp-Ty?  They're called shortcuts here.
>
>Simply tune the DLL to parse whatever.lnk files and treat them the same
>as Posixstan
>symbolic links and change the LN.EXE program to create shortcuts.
>
>The result is a "filesystem tree" that's browsable from both the GNU and
>eNp-Ty sides.
>
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