From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14301 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2002 15:44:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14289 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2002 15:43:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO darius.concentric.net) (207.155.198.79) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2002 15:43:59 -0000 Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net [Concentric SMTP Routing 1.0] id g6GFhv222018 ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:43:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Clemens.cris.com (da003d0444.sjc-ca.osd.concentric.net [64.1.1.189]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id LAA18150; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:43:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020716083826.01f845a0@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:21:00 -0000 To: Matt Swift , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el In-Reply-To: References: <09b601c22bc1$ec09e870$2300a8c0@LAPTOP> <09b601c22bc1$ec09e870$2300a8c0@LAPTOP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01259.txt.bz2 Matt, Hard links don't exist on FAT file system volumes. I may have missed something (please forgive me for not re-reading the thread), but why is a non-Cygwin program (NTEmacs) relying on a Cygwin tool? Surely it can be configured to use the correct one, right? If NTEmacs doesn't include it's own gzip / gunzip, then editing a compressed file wouldn't even be possible without Cygwin installed, so it seems incumbent upon NTEmacs to deal with the challenges of doing so in their most generic form. There is, for example, the "readlink" command that resolves a Cygwin symbolic link. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 08:30 2002-07-16, Matt Swift wrote: >... > >I see that the Cygwin sources have been changed back to gunzip being a >symlink. > >What about a hard link? It seems to be the best of both worlds. No >more disk space and no problems with symlnks. I've tried it and it >works well so far. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/