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Re: cygwin1.dll
- To: Paul Garceau <pgarceau at qwest dot net>
- Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:43:10 -0500
- CC: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <3A93D978.23531.877F38@localhost>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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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