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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: stow

>> Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies.  Windows file systems 
>> don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done.  
>> So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'.
> 
> Huh?  NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin supports
> creating hardlinks on NTFS since... oh,  lemme see... 1997.

Okay.  My mistake-- I'm using VFAT here.

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