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Re: cygwin ln


Jens Reimann <reim@pe-muc.de> writes:
> 
> do you have some information how the ln command under cygwin works (can
> you really create symblic links??) ...
> 

It works just like on other systems. Are you having trouble creating 
symbolic links?

  $ ln file1 file2

creates file2 as a hard link to file1 (on FAT and Win9x, it just copies
the file).

  $ ln -s file1 file2

Links file2 to file1. Works on FAT/NTFS on Win9x/NT.

Regards,
Mumit


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