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Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>, Matt Swift <swift at alum dot mit dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:41:56 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el
--- David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 Jul 02, Matt Swift writes:
> > 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.
>
> I do not believe that is possible on Win9x.
>
> IMO, a separate copy of the file is the friendliest choice for Windows
> apps like GNU Emacs. But it's up to the gzip maintainer. If the gzip
> maintainer chooses not to do this, GNU Emacs users will have to work
> around it somehow. Full stop.
>
You are right, WinME/9X doesn't support "hard links", nor does NT with
FAT/FAT32 formatted drives.
Geeze, try this:
rm -f /bin/gzip.exe; cp -f /bin/gunzip.exe /bin/gzip.exe
Now was that hard? No.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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