[m-dev.] [ddw at miscrit.be: mmc vs a_mmc vs mumc]

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Nov 23 01:20:37 AEDT 2000


On 22-Nov-2000, Dominique de Waleffe <ddw at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > I think Cygwin's `ln' command creates copies, so I think you could
> > just use `ln' and then it would work on both Unix and Windows.
> 
> They used to not do copies but create a small file containing the
> indirection.

`ln -s' (symbolic links) did that.  But `ln' (hard links)
makes copies, or at least it did last time I looked.

> I dont know the current state. I'd prefer explicit copies
> [that's one less unix'sm].

Explicit copies would be OK with me.

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