Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 09:28:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Cc: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: /ln/mkfifo/mknod
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> >ln also has one DJGPP-specific goodie: it knows about DJGPP symlinks to 
> >executables.  Try this:
> >
> >	ln -s c:/djgpp/bin/grep.exe c:/djgpp/bin/fgrep.exe
> >
> This is great! IMHO this should go to the FAQ, even being asked only once
> 'till now!

The FAQ includes an explanation on how to make a symlink for a long time 
now (it was in the original FAQ written by DJ Delorie).  It just doesn't 
mention the `ln' way of doing it, since Fileutils is an optional package.
But the README.dos file in the Fileutils distribution mentions this.

(There should be something to gain for those who read those README files, 
right?)