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Re: emacs install problem

From: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
To: Gareth Pearce <tilps at hotmail dot com>
Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: 14 Aug 2002 13:41:21 +1000
Subject: Re: emacs install problem
References: <F243etVoMDrxxnSYe4n00000c42@hotmail.com>

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 13:38, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >Eh?
> >
> >All my file systems are NTFS and hence support hard links.
> >
> >But I really don't see what that's got to do with the fact that most, if 
> >not all of Emacs did not install on my system.
> 
> putting hard links in a cygwin distribution package is a bad idea all the 
> same I would think (especially for win9x'ers).  Possibly could break things 
> in unexpected ways.

Hard links *should* be just fine. setup should make copies of files that
are hardlinks.

Rob

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