On 21 Feb 2001, at 19:43, the Illustrious Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Paul Garceau wrote:
> >
> > >Do you have symlinks for /bin
> > > or /usr/bin? If you do have symlinks these are known not to
> > > work with setup.exe which is by the way a non-Cygwin
> > > executable so it 1) doesn't understand symlinks and 2)
> > > doesn't know about the Cygwin registry wrt actually using it
> > > to find files are concerned.
> >
> > Win9x/ME, if I remember the original post properly,
> > can't
> > support symlinks.
> >
>
> Paul, Cygwin emulates symlinks for both WinNT and Win9x.
Thanks for the clarification, Earnie. "Emulation" vs. actual
symlinks...I understand.
Peace,
Paul G.
>
> Earnie.
>
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