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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
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- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
- From: John Paulson <munch at powertv dot com>
- Date: 2001年2月23日 12:11:36 -0800
I like the proposal to unify Windows and Cygwin symlinks. However, one
minor problem can occur: under *nix I can have files with the extension
.lnk, with no special semantics associated with it. I can tar up a directory
containing .lnk files on my *nix box and untar them on my cygwin box. What
happens to those files with the .lnk extension? I think this will be another
bit of Windows-vs-the-world festivity (as occurred with one source tarball
recently which had a directory named "AUX").
Even with that potential hassle, unification is the correct choice.
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