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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:45:12 -0700
To: Matt Swift <swift AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el
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Matt,

Hard links don't exist on FAT file system volumes.

I may have missed something (please forgive me for not re-reading the 
thread), but why is a non-Cygwin program (NTEmacs) relying on a Cygwin 
tool? Surely it can be configured to use the correct one, right? If NTEmacs 
doesn't include it's own gzip / gunzip, then editing a compressed file 
wouldn't even be possible without Cygwin installed, so it seems incumbent 
upon NTEmacs to deal with the challenges of doing so in their most generic 
form. There is, for example, the "readlink" command that resolves a Cygwin 
symbolic link.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 08:30 2002-07-16, Matt Swift wrote:
>...
>
>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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