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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: stow
>> Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies. Windows file systems
>> don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done.
>> So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'.
>
> Huh? NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin supports
> creating hardlinks on NTFS since... oh, lemme see... 1997.
Okay. My mistake-- I'm using VFAT here.
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