From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Patch: symlink()
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:19:14 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <39941478.329CA50B@softhome.net> from "Laurynas Biveinis" at Aug 11, 2000 04:58:00 PM
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> +@findex symlink AT r{, and symlink support}
> +As a part of symlink emulation, @code{symlink} no longer emulates symlinks
> +to executables by creating stubs. It creates symlinks to all files instead.

Was this agreed upon?

I'd think the DJGPP stub .EXE symlink support could still be very
useful. Otherwise we won't be able to launch symlink .EXEs from
COMMAND.COM.

Am I missing something?


Right,

						MartinS