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RE: Symlinks from Windoze?

From: Monks, Peter <peter.monks_at_vignette.com>
Date: 2004-08-13 08:29:43 CEST

G'day again,

> Yes, you have misunderstood. The "untranslated" file is the one whose
> contents are "link foo". When the release notes say Win32 systems do
> not translate, that means you get a file with those contents in your
> directory. It does not translate to the contents of the linked file,
> no "expansion" occurs.

That's a shame - being able to do a "non-branching copy" (as can be
emulated using symlinks on *nix) would be pretty handy.

Cheers,
Peter

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