X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: soft link From: m-friedrichs AT hdlresearchlab DOT com References: <7UQnc.25852$do3 DOT 14340 AT newssvr22 DOT news DOT prodigy DOT com> <5kt3a05is28l6hu6au4nno51fl4fhvmdgu AT 4ax DOT com> <25h6a094ajjdlkq4k0gjqtrtbpjluc564u AT 4ax DOT com> X-Newsreader: News Rover 8.2.2 (http://www.NewsRover.com) Lines: 59 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.69.20.73 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT prodigy DOT net X-Trace: newssvr22.news.prodigy.com 1084464934 ST000 65.69.20.73 (Thu, 13 May 2004 12:15:34 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:15:34 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: O AT ZAR[SEJCT[BPH]]ZN AT _TDAYZOZ@GXOXJXNMRQIMASJETAANVW[AKWZE\]^XQWIGNE_[EBL@^_\^JOCQ^RSNVLGTFTKHTXHHP[NB\_C@\SD AT EP_[KCXX__AGDDEKGFNB\ZOKLRNCY_CGG[RHT_UN AT C_BSY\G__IJIX_PLSA[CCFAULEY\FL\VLGANTQQ]FN Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:15:34 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > >I downloaded "ln.exe" from v2gnu, as suggested, to be used with 'ch'. > >Still, > >the same result, not working. I was suggested to do a copy which defeats > >the purpose of a soft link. Not happy with this. > The symlink has changed between 2.03 and 2.04. Have a read of the 2.04 > readme for more details, but in essence 2.03 -> 204 symlink fail, > 2.04->2.03 symlink okay. > > I suggest you upgrade all of the rest of the programs and try again. > > Andrew I downloaded the DJGPP package with V2GNU and still have problems, my results: F:\djgpp>ls -lF / total 3 drwxr-xr-x 15 dosuser root 448 May 12 10:07 ch/ drwxr-xr-x 16 dosuser root 704 May 13 11:03 djgpp/ drwxr-xr-x 12 dosuser root 480 May 12 08:07 mks/ drwxr-xr-x 2 dosuser root 0 May 13 11:01 tmp/ drwxr-xr-x 5 dosuser root 96 Apr 5 12:08 win/ F:\djgpp>ls -lF total 108 -rw-r--r-- 1 dosuser root 19674 Apr 30 21:05 00_index.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 dosuser root 128 May 13 09:50 FAQ/ drwxr-xr-x 2 dosuser root 3008 May 13 10:13 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 3 dosuser root 32 May 13 09:54 contrib/ -rw-r--r-- 1 dosuser root 17982 Nov 1 1995 copying -rw-r--r-- 1 dosuser root 2084 Jun 3 1999 copying.dj -rw-r--r-- 1 dosuser root 2084 May 13 09:12 copying.dj.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 dosuser root 25265 Nov 1 1995 copying.lib -rw-r--r-- 1 dosuser root 3592 Mar 2 2002 djgpp.env drwxr-xr-x 3 dosuser root 32 May 13 09:54 doc/ drwxr-xr-x 9 dosuser root 224 May 13 10:13 gnu/ drwxr-xr-x 9 dosuser root 256 May 13 10:14 gnudocs/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 dosuser root 58 May 13 10:45 go_djgpp.bat* drwxr-xr-x 9 dosuser root 2144 May 13 09:50 include/ drwxr-xr-x 2 dosuser root 1632 May 13 10:13 info/ drwxr-xr-x 3 dosuser root 32 May 13 09:51 lang/ drwxr-xr-x 4 dosuser root 384 May 13 09:50 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 5 dosuser root 96 May 13 09:54 man/ drwxr-xr-x 2 dosuser root 1504 May 13 10:14 manifest/ -rw-r--r-- 1 dosuser root 22141 Mar 5 2002 readme.1st drwxr-xr-x 9 dosuser root 256 May 13 09:54 rsxntdj/ drwxr-xr-x 5 dosuser root 96 May 13 09:54 share/ drwxr-xr-x 2 dosuser root 0 May 13 11:11 tmp/ F:\djgpp>ln -s f:/tmp tmp ln: creating symbolic link `tmp/tmp' to `f:/tmp': Improper link (EXDEV) F:\djgpp>ls -l bin/ln.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 dosuser root 118272 Aug 31 2003 bin/ln.exe Any ideas? --- MikeF