X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Andrew Cottrell Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: soft link Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:46:05 +1000 Organization: HOME Message-ID: References: <7UQnc.25852$do3 DOT 14340 AT newssvr22 DOT news DOT prodigy DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.154.115.197 X-Trace: 1084264591 news.syd.swiftdsl.com.au 2301 202.154.115.197 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >I have a program called ch professional, which launches from the command >line under win2k, and uses djpgg "ln" to create soft links which doesn't >work. From my interaction with the company in 2002 when DJGPP 2.04 was in alpha release (make that gamma in respect of crashing on 2K/XP) ch uses a number of utils from the V2GNU directory and they include them in their commercial program. >The vendors manual says ln - S is implemented. But does not work from the >win2k command line(dos box). I sent a support question about this problem >to the vendors support line, who suggested, I go to this newsgroup to get an >answer. > >any suggestions? Go back and ask them which version alpha or beta version of DJGPP they use to build CH. And inform them that the most stable version was reelased at the end of 2003. When I dealt with them they were not very helpful and used an alpha version that I built to do a commercail release of CH which was very very very crazy. If you go and grab the files from one of the following links then you will end up with the latest version of the V2GNU files. I do not know which ones you need:- Now you have two options to choose from, you only need to do one:- a) Download the 2.04 beta files from http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_204.htm b) Download the 2.04 beta files from ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/v2gnu/ Do not download the files from ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/v2 as they are old.... Good luck and all the best with your dealing with them. Andrew