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Re: NTFS links
At 01:14 PM 2/12/2004, Chris Jefferson you wrote:
>Cygwin includes quite a number of symlinks. I personally have changed a number of the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones to fix (as has been mentioned recently) the problem that cygwin-style symlinks don't work from cmd
>
>Would it be possible to automagically change all the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones? is there anything I should watch for if I attempted such a thing?
Setup creates the "old-style" symlinks. A patch to it that creates
"new-style" is one way of automagically doing this. A script could be
concocted too. 'ln -s' creates the "new-style" by default.
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