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> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:27:18 +0200
> 
> 
> >> Did you forget that he said he's using TRAMP, not the Windows  
> >> filesystem
> >> API?
> >
> > Yes, I failed to notice that, sorry.
> >
> 
> 
> Why should that make a difference? Although TRAMP sees on the remote  
> UNIX host a sym-link it can present to MS Losedos nothing but some  
> kind of file.

And what does Tramp present to Emacs on a Unix system? isn't that
``some kind of file'' as well?