Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function?

[dfan@harmonixmusic.com (Dan Schmidt)]

SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

| Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
| 
| >>>>>> "MD" == Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:
| 
| MD> Is it possible to define the crosspost-link-function to use symbolic
| MD> links instead of hard links?
| 
| > Important reason why not: not all filesystems support symbolic links.
| 
| Symbolic links are about 20 years old and have withstood the test of
| time.  If a system hasn't implemented them by now, why can't it safely
| be ignored?

I have to use Windows 95 at work, which doesn't have symbolic links.
I realize that Win95 is a work of Pure Evil (I run Linux at home),
but I do manage to run Emacs and gnus on it.  I'd prefer not to be
ignored, safely or not :)

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