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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:59:26 -0300
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Subject: Re: Real symlinks for DJGPP?
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Richard Dawe wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > Nice. Are the WINDOZE shortcuts equivalent to symlinks? If so perhaps
> > that format should be used?
>
> No, they are not at all equivalent. To the FAT filesystem they are just
> another file.

Don't forget that symlinks are regular files with just a different attribute.

SET

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