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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:28:20 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ln and mkshortcut inconsistent in handling of .exe extension
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:23:23PM -0400, Matt Swift wrote:
>The following shell transcript demonstrates that `ln' does not handle
>the .exe extension gracefully, like mkshortcut does.

Correct.  It is not intended to.
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