From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: Bug in Fileutils 3.16?
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 13:03:54 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>
>On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Turo Lamminen wrote:
>
>> ln -s dummy.txt dummy2.txt
>> 
>> It creates dummy2.txt.exe instead of dummy2.txt
>
>> Isn't this a bug?
>
>No, it's actually a feature.  But it is not supposed to be
>used with text (or otherwise non-executable) files.

This is a misfeature in FAT: Microsoft's implementation does not
support true shortcuts. There are ".lnk" and ".pif" shortcuts, but
those are not true symlinks.

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