From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.04 status page updates: more to-dos, priorities
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:47:30 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <200212120814.JAA24795@lws256.lu.erisoft.se> from "Martin Stromberg" at Dec 12, 2002 09:14:12 AM
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> Eli said:
> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se wrote:
> > 
> > > Ehum. Didn't we adopt the format from cygwin or something?
> > 
> > We adopted it from a version of Cygwin that was used back then, but in 
> > the meantime Cygwin changed their format, so now we are not compatible.
> 
> Yes, but according to this post
> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-02/msg01260.html> cygwin
> will understand the old format. It's possible that they changed that
> later of course.

Why don't we switch to the new format?  It says it's Win compatible
on windows systems (.lnk)

I don't know how they implemented it, but there are hacks available to
make sure .lnk would be a fixed size (510 bytes).