Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: fixup-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com@fixme From: "Paul Garceau" Organization: New Dawn Productions To: Earnie Boyd Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:46:35 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <3A93FEFB.12523.288B60@localhost> In-reply-to: <3A94609E.CAD1E2E9@yahoo.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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. > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple