Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?

[Yang]

Thanks for sharing the experience. That is a sad news if this is true. I 
used to use carbon emacs on a mac and that works fine with UNIX file 
systems. I like the looks and fonts of the carbon emacs. Now I also like 
the emacs looks and font rendering on vista. Is there any patch around to 
let the windows emacs understand UNIX symbolic links? I know there used to 
be a package for emacs to understand windows file shortcuts.

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, William Xu wrote:

> 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
>
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