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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Setup.exe: "/" prefix on symlinks
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:13:17 -0600
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Mainly a heads-up for you Rob:

I'm getting bad symlinks now with the latest setup.exe.  They end up looking
like this:

...
lrwxrwxrwx    1 Gary_VS  None           21 Dec 27 00:36 etags.exe -> /ctags.exe
...

The "/" of course leads to all manner of havoc.  This is the earliest one I see
here.

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Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.