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Re: Make and .exe Files



Am 12:13 2003-07-18 -0400 hat Christopher Faylor geschrieben:

>>NTFS supports hard links, and Cygwin makes use of that, however, FAT32 
>>even on NT doesn't so Cygwin does some magic to make it work.  However, 
>>that magic involves funny file names and file attributes that will cause 
>>CreateProcess problems.
>
>The magic that cygwin does to make hard link work on non-NTFS
>filesystems is "copy the file".   There are no funny file names or file
>attributes.

Copy the files or make small exes with a 'shell-exec' command in it ?

I have done this for many years under MS-DOS 6.22 ;-))

Michelle



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