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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-2


On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:40:57PM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>*grumble* Hmm...  I suspect this is really a Setup issue.  The binary
>is stored in the tar as a hardlink to the versioned name.  If you
>manually unpack it, with tar, it does the right thing.  On an NTFS
>volume, it makes it a hardlink to the real file (ie: link count = 2).
>On a FAT volume, it duplicates the file's contents (ie: link count =
>1).  It appears setup isn't quite handling it correctly for your
>configuration.  We'd have to get detailed info about your config.  Are
>you using the latest setup.exe, btw?  If not, try a snap-shot first.
>It's as simple a un-installing and re-install zsh to test.

Again, setup.exe does not understand hard links.  So if you use a hard
link in your tar file, you will not get a hard link when setup.exe
installs it.

cgf

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