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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality


On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:53:40PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:37:23PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:36:56AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:27:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >The problem is that a shortcut has to contain a DOS path, obviously.
> >> >The new strategy is as follows:
> >> 
> >> If this is the case, then we can't use .lnk files as the default symlinks.
> >> DOS paths are not UNIX paths.  The mount table will be bypassed in the symlinks.
> >
> >Chris,
> >
> >I'm a bit annoyed about your excoriating here. You're changing
> [etc...]

I assume my day was to long already. I'm shutting down for today.

Sorry for the noise,
Corinna

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