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From: "Paul Garceau" <pgarceau AT qwest DOT net>
Organization: New Dawn Productions
To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:46:35 -0800
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On 21 Feb 2001, at 19:43, the Illustrious Earnie Boyd wrote:

> Paul Garceau wrote:
> >  
> > >Do you have symlinks for /bin
> > > or /usr/bin?  If you do have symlinks these are known not to
> > > work with setup.exe which is by the way a non-Cygwin
> > > executable so it 1) doesn't understand symlinks and 2)
> > > doesn't know about the Cygwin registry wrt actually using it
> > > to find files are concerned.
> > 
> >         Win9x/ME, if I remember the original post properly,
> >         can't
> > support symlinks.
> > 
> 
> Paul, Cygwin emulates symlinks for both WinNT and Win9x.

	Thanks for the clarification, Earnie.  "Emulation" vs. actual 
symlinks...I understand.

	Peace,

		Paul G.
> 
> Earnie.
> 
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