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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:04:42 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Interesting effects with symlinks
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I have a symlink bar pointing to foo.exe.  But I decide I want to copy
foo.exe to bar.exe instead via `cp -f foo.exe bar.exe'.  Now I end up
with two files bar and bar.exe.  Here's the interesting point, bar which
was a symlink is now a copy of foo.exe.

Earnie.

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