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Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el
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From: Matt Swift <swift AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:30:05 -0400
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>> "R" == Robert wrote:

    R> Sounds to me like NTEmacs is broken, and should be able to interpret
    R> symlinks if it wants to interoperate with cygwin.

    R> Heck, it could even link with cygwin and get that for free!

    R> Rob

Porting Emacs to Cygwin is no small job.  Meanwhile, many need to use
NTEmacs with Cygwin with as much efficiency as is available.

I see that the Cygwin sources have been changed back to gunzip being a
symlink.

What about a hard link?  It seems to be the best of both worlds.  No
more disk space and no problems with symlnks.  I've tried it and it
works well so far.

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