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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:36:46 -0700
To: Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: running mks toolkit and cygwin on same machine
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Tom,

Only NTFS file systems support hard links. Symlinks work on all file systems.

I presume that the symlinks used for command aliases in Setup.exe's 
packages are present in the tarballs themselves, with no extra work (beyond 
embodying the Cygwin tar code or an equivalent) required by Setup.exe. 
That's one of the things about Cygwin TAR that makes it a requirement when 
dealing with TAR archives bearing such Unix TAR features and why other 
"compatible" TAR processors aren't suitable.

Randall


At 06:21 2002-07-10, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > Why?  Works fine for me.  But a hard link of egrep.exe
> > and grep.exe (and fgrep.exe) rather than symlink of
> > egrep -> grep.exe (no .exe) might help.
>
>Hmm, I did not make any links, so assume that setup.exe
>did this:
>
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 Administ       15 May 22 17:53 /usr/bin/egrep -> grep
>
>..and that there must be a good reason why hard links are
>not the default for such things.  Will give this a try when I
>get a chance to read up on what "links" mean under WIN2000...
>
>Thanks,
>Tom


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