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Re: link cmd
- To: Christian Mathieu <mathieu at fr dot ibm dot com>, <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: link cmd
- From: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:58:40 -0500
At 05:00 PM 10/28/98 +0000, Christian Mathieu wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm using B19 gnuwin32 on a NT machine. When i try to link from a remote file
>to a local file as in
>ln -s //l/build/toto/foo.c /build/foo.c the link works
>but if i edit the file i only have
>!<symlink>//l/build/toto/foo.c instead of the file. How can i have the contents
>of the file without copying the file ?
>
>Thanks in advance and
>best regards
>
>Christian Mathieu
>
>mathieu@fr.ibm.com
>Tel (33) 4 9211 5896
Symbolic links only work for Cygwin-enabled applications. What application
are you using to "edit" the file? Was it compiled against cygwinb19.dll?
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053
8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX
Wellesley, MA 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com
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