Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Chris Faylor Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:11:16 -0400 To: "Lincoln, W. Terry" Cc: "'Jens Reimann'" , "'Cygwin Mailing List'" Subject: Re: cygwin ln Message-ID: <19990825121116.C1508@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mail-Followup-To: "Lincoln, W. Terry" , 'Jens Reimann' , 'Cygwin Mailing List' References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Lincoln, W. Terry on Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:00:50AM -0400 On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:00:50AM -0400, Lincoln, W. Terry wrote: > > >> From: >On Wednesday, August 25, 1999 5:09 AM Jens Reimann [mailto:reim AT pe-muc DOT de] >wrote: >> >> Hi >Hello Jens >> >> do you have some information how the ln command under cygwin >> works (can you really create symbolic links??) ... >Symbolic links are just regular text file that contain a magic and the file >name linked to. They are recognized by having there SYS attribute set only >by Cygwin tools. The actual contents of the symlink file for: ln >subdir/foo.txt bar.txt >is this: >---- begin file contents bar.txt >!subdir/foo.txt\0 >---- end file contents bar.txt Another answer to this question is "Use the source, Luke!" cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com