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Re: cygwin1.dll


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.

Earnie.

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