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Re: Use the native Symlinks.
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Use the native Symlinks.
- From: cgf at cygnus dot com (Christopher G. Faylor)
- Date: 24 Aug 1998 14:20:54 GMT
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <35E04A22.6971.cygnus.gnu-win32@telegenisys.com>
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In article <35E04A22.6971.cygnus.gnu-win32@telegenisys.com>,
Henry J. Cobb <hcobb@telegenisys.com> wrote:
>Why add the concepts of hard and soft links to an operating system that
>already has soft links? (And that's all you need really, if you drop
>the flawed concept that the "operating environment" can hide the true
>line end markers.)
>
>What symbolic links on eNp-Ty? They're called shortcuts here.
>
>Simply tune the DLL to parse whatever.lnk files and treat them the same
>as Posixstan symbolic links and change the LN.EXE program to create
>shortcuts.
>
>The result is a "filesystem tree" that's browsable from both the GNU
>and eNp-Ty sides.
Check out the mailing list archive. You're not the first person to
bring this up.
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