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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:33:25 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: vi won't execute - symlink semantics changed?
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:16:41PM +1100, luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au wrote:
> I updated my Cygwin installation to the latest version, yesterday.
> (That included the fresh bash-2.05-7 and binutils.)
> 
> Since then, I can't run vi except by either specifying the full path
> /usr/bin/vi or using vim.  In other words, the symlink from vi ->
> vim.exe does not get used.
> 
> I also notice that if you do a test -x /usr/bin/vi that now fails; I
> believe it used to succeed.

I checked both with 1.3.15-2 and can't reproduce it.

Corinna

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