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On Oct 15, 2:14 pm, peters DOT  DOT  DOT  AT volny DOT cz wrote:
> On Oct 15, 3:16 pm, DJ Delorie <d DOT  DOT  DOT  AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> > > Are you at least using the 2.04 beta?
>
> Yes I was using 2.04 beta with cdrtools, the symbolic links aren`t
> supported on FAT, djgpp really emulate this links as cygwin? I don`t
> understand it much, but I had to copy files instead to use links.
> Please, explain me this feature in djgpp :-)

You have to use LN.EXE from /beta/FIL41B.ZIP. And only 2.04-compiled
programs can transparently handle such links.

I assume this is what you want to know:

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c:\Armslurp\temp>ln -s rosary.pdf tony.pdf

c:\Armslurp\temp>ls -l *.pdf
-rw-r--r--    1 Rugxulo  root       160468 Sep 28 19:38 rosary.pdf
lrw-r--r--    1 Rugxulo  root          510 Oct 16 22:10 tony.pdf ->
rosary.pdf

c:\Armslurp\temp>ls -lL *.pdf
-rw-r--r--    1 Rugxulo  root       160468 Sep 28 19:38 rosary.pdf
-rw-r--r--    1 Rugxulo  root       160468 Sep 28 19:38 tony.pdf

c:\Armslurp\temp>upx -l ..\djgpp\bin\ln.exe
                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
  Copyright (C)
1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007
UPX 3.01w       Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser   Jul
31st 2007

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
    128000 ->     67336   52.61%   djgpp2/coff   ..\djgpp\bin\ln.exe
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