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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:59:57 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: New symlinks are great.
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> With Corinna's new symlink methods I can now symlink a DLL and win32 is
> able to find it.

WOW!!  I did not know that the windows loader would use .lnk files! 
**Maybe** we can now do *real* unix-style versioning of shared libs...

*WARNING WARNING WARNING* this will require a lot of testing
first...don't go off half-cocked...

--Chuck

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