Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:58:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Michael Honeyfield <michael AT compucon DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: fileutils and symlinks
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Michael Honeyfield wrote:

> Fileutils, using the ln can I
> create symlinks to directories, like I can in *nix? or does it work only to
> and absolute file only?

Currently, DJGPP supports symlinks ("ln -s") for executable programs 
only.  Hard links are simulated by copying, but that doesn't work with 
directories.

A future DJGPP release will support simulated symlinks for any file, 
including a directory.