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Re: b19,20: ln -d - hard links .. ?
> Win32 doesn't do hard links! Remember you're not on UNIX your only
> emulating it and there will be things nearly impossible and this
> will be one of them.
Hard links *are* supported by Cygwin on NTFS partitions for files.
However, Cygwin does not support hard links to directories. Under
Windows 95, hard linking a file just results in a file copy.
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Geoffrey Noer
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