Re: UVFAT? (Yes, I remember this being kicked around a while ag)

Aaron Denney (wnoise@ugcs.caltech.edu)
10 Sep 1998 10:20:23 GMT

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 01:25:32 -0700 (PDT), Gordon Chaffee <chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> OK, I created one on an NT box, and then I loaded the file contents up
> into Emacs, and it looks like:
>
> !<symlink>//e/temp/out\0
>
> Because Cygwin doesn't use the NT drive letters in the name but instead
> uses double slashes, it will work compatibly with a Linux scheme. Thanks
> for the suggestion.

Also note that the current snapshot only follows symlinks if the system
bit is set on the file, otherwise it is treated as a normal file.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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