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Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:27:44 +0100
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Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 August 2008 20:19:

 
> Ooooh. This is nice. How does Cygiwn keep track of this link? Does
> it survive a reboot?

  Yeh, sure, it's a bog-standard softlink implemented using a windows .lnk
shortcut file just like any other made by cygwin's "ln" command.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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