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From: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:02:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r6dpaaa3.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.63.0803312300120.23796@Titan.HPC.MsState.Edu

Yang <fz15@HPC.MsState.Edu> writes:

> Anyone know what was going on and how to fix this?

I've never used Windows Vista, so the following is my experience on
Windows XP, which probably also applies to Windows Vista.

On Windows XP, if you try to access some shared files/directories from a
*nix machine, since Windows XP doesn't understand *nix symbolic links,
all symbolic links will simply become a copy of the original file,
nothing more.  My advice is: never edit *nix symbolic links on Windows
XP.

-- 
William

http://williamxu.net9.org





  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-01 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01  4:01 Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link? Yang
2008-04-01 15:02 ` William Xu [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.9785.1207062149.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-01 16:54   ` Yang
2008-04-01 18:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02  2:09     ` William Xu
     [not found]     ` <mailman.9816.1207102163.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02  5:06       ` Yang
     [not found]     ` <mailman.9824.1207116435.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02  6:33       ` Barry Margolin
2008-04-02  7:50         ` Michael Albinus
2008-04-02 17:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-03 19:45             ` Michael Albinus
2008-04-02 17:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 17:27           ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-02 17:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 22:12               ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-03  3:12                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 18:15             ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]           ` <mailman.9884.1207157251.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02 23:28             ` Jason Rumney

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