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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:34:33 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic linkfunctionality
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John Paulson wrote:
> 
>    I like the proposal to unify Windows and Cygwin symlinks.  However, one
> minor problem can occur: under *nix I can have files with the extension
> .lnk, with no special semantics associated with it.  I can tar up a directory
> containing .lnk files on my *nix box and untar them on my cygwin box.  What
> happens to those files with the .lnk extension?  I think this will be another
> bit of Windows-vs-the-world festivity (as occurred with one source tarball
> recently which had a directory named "AUX").
> 
>    Even with that potential hassle, unification is the correct choice.
> 

Just for kicks, after reading this post, I did `touch foo.lnk' and have
a circular reference to foo.lnk.  The directory listing actually shows
the filename as foo.lnk.

I then decided to `cat << EOF > abc.lnk' and actually put data in the
file. This time the listing doesn't show a circular reference and cat
abc.lnk gives me the contents of the file.

Earnie.

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