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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:07:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: symlink question
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> The idea is okay (since I also suggested it ;-), but please submit 
> patches with forward slashes, not backslashes.

True enough about the idea. And sorry about slashes. 

> 
> Where's the part that handles the non-existing files, btw?
> 

I was under the impression that we should either add calls to link() or 
disallow non-existant files. Doing both seems unneccessary. If we do 
the first change, then configure scripts will still detect 'ln -s' but will now 
work in that we emulate the result by calling link(). If we do the first and 
the second change, we will have made so that configure scripts will not 
detect 'ln -s' while at the same time making it possible for 'ln -s' to work 
in configure scripts.

Mark

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