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Re: symbolic links
- To: kadhim at cs dot colorado dot edu, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: symbolic links
- From: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 11:35:38 -0500
At 10:57 AM 3/7/97 -0700, Basim Kadhim wrote:
>The FAQ indicates that you can't execute a link or follow it as a directory.
>Is this going to continue to be the case or is it the intention that this
>will eventually change?
>
>We have tried porting the Eli compiler construction system to NT using the
>toolset. The major stumbling block appears to be the problems with
>symbolic links.
>
>--
>Basim Kadhim kadhim@cs.colorado.edu
>University of Colorado, Boulder
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There's a patch available from
http://wwwdim.uqac.uquebec.ca/ftp/pub/gnuwin32/patches/ that is supposed to
fix this problem, if you want to build it. I haven't tried it yet
myself....
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
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