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From: Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2heizy9ky.fsf@swift.shore.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09b601c22bc1$ec09e870$2300a8c0@LAPTOP> ("Robert Collins"'s message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:39:00 +1000")

>> "R" == Robert wrote:

    R> Sounds to me like NTEmacs is broken, and should be able to interpret
    R> symlinks if it wants to interoperate with cygwin.

    R> Heck, it could even link with cygwin and get that for free!

    R> Rob

Porting Emacs to Cygwin is no small job.  Meanwhile, many need to use
NTEmacs with Cygwin with as much efficiency as is available.

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.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-16 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-15  2:20 Matt Swift
2002-07-15  2:26 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15  5:36   ` gzip.exe as symlink Max Bowsher
2002-07-15  5:38     ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15 12:41       ` Jon Cast
2002-07-15 14:47         ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-15 15:57         ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15 22:22       ` Max Bowsher
2002-07-15  9:21     ` Dario Alcocer
2002-07-15 12:02   ` gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el Jon Cast
2002-07-15 17:05   ` Gerrit P. Haase
2002-07-16  8:59   ` Matt Swift [this message]
2002-07-16  9:14     ` David Starks-Browning
2002-07-16  9:17       ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 10:21     ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:27       ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 19:43         ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:51           ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 20:12             ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 20:14               ` Robert Collins
2002-07-16 23:05                 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 23:42                   ` Robert Collins
2002-07-17  0:53                     ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-17  0:58                     ` Christopher Faylor
2002-07-17  0:59                       ` Robert Collins
2002-07-16 20:36               ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 23:54                 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-18 17:08                   ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 19:49         ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 19:52           ` Jon Cast
2002-07-15 15:46 gzip.exe as symlink Robinow, David
2002-07-15 15:48 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 18:51   ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 18:50 files and directories distinction: Aldi Kraja
2002-07-16 19:34 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:37   ` Jon Cast
     [not found] <rrschulz@cris.com>
2003-03-29  4:00 ` Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin? Jeff.Hodges

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