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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 18:46:23 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: New symlinks are great.
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In-Reply-To: <3A96E99D.C4F10117@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:52:13PM -0500

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:52:13PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> 
>> With Corinna's new symlink methods I can now symlink a DLL and win32 is
>> able to find it.
>> 
>
>Oops.  I'll withdraw the statement.  It was user error that caused me to
>think it worked.  :(
>
>The new symlinks are still great though!

Yeah, one thing they'll now let us do, I think is do away with the
/usr/bin mount and make it a symlink like everybody thinks it should be.
This is because the new symlinks should work fine on network shares.
That was always the obstacle before.

cgf

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