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To: Jens Reimann <reim AT pe-muc DOT de>
cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin ln 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:09:14 +0200."
             <37C3B2BA DOT C9CC25FD AT pe-muc DOT de> 
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 04:21:58 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

Jens Reimann <reim AT pe-muc DOT de> writes:
> 
> do you have some information how the ln command under cygwin works (can
> you really create symblic links??) ...
> 

It works just like on other systems. Are you having trouble creating 
symbolic links?

  $ ln file1 file2

creates file2 as a hard link to file1 (on FAT and Win9x, it just copies
the file).

  $ ln -s file1 file2

Links file2 to file1. Works on FAT/NTFS on Win9x/NT.

Regards,
Mumit


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