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Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)


On 01/12/2010 11:44 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 11 14:14, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear?  I only compared
the old and the new format.  The new format using UTF-16 is used by both
styles of symlinks, the SYSTEM and the .lnk style.

OK, I didn't get that from my reading of the description. I'd recommend adding that path names of either style now use UTF-16, just to be clear. I doubt this is a critical issue of course but it's worthwhile to make this distinction to avoid confusion.

I tried to make it clearer. Is that better?


http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html

Perfect. :-)


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