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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:18:50 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "cp: will not create hard link"
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:43:32PM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>I think I've tracked this down.  My path contained an old version of
>cp.exe, ahead of the newly installed one.  It must have been
>incompatible with the newly installed cygwin dll.

It doesn't work that way.  New dlls always work with older binaries.
If this "cp" was a cygwin binary then it would work.

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