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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'Corinna Vinschen'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: New symlinks
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:01:46 +0100 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 8:37 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: New symlinks
> 
> 
> My last email related to the symlinks==shortcuts discussion.
>

Agreed; mee too.
 
> IMO, the symlink==shortcut is a great new thing. I like them.
> I don't like them only because I wrote them but I like the
> way to have a better interoperability with native Windows
> tools (whichever direction).

I like them BOTH because YOU wrote it, so that I don't have to try to write
it myself :-) and because of the iteroperability.

> 
> Nobody of the posters here could convince me that the way I have
> implemented them is bad or wrong. So I don't see a need to change
> the implementation.

Me neither!

> 
> Especially I can't understand why most of the folks see problems
> which currently not has happened.
> 
>     Did you ever see technological progress when people
>     only fearfully try to avoid any problem which could
>     happen (perhaps)?
> 
> Please, let's test this for a while first. If this mixes up
> things too much we can discuss this again or revert the change.
> 
> We have a loss only if we never try it.

I agree 100% (and even more if it were possible).

Thanks for the good work,

	Bernard

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