08-24-2010
info ln told me:
Quote:
On all existing implementations, you cannot make a hard link to a
directory, and hard links cannot cross file system boundaries. (These
restrictions are not mandated by POSIX, however.)
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NAME
rebuild-jar-repository - rebuild a JAR repository
SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
Rebuild a jar repository (built by build-jar-repository) based on the current JVM settings
OPTIONS
If no option is specified the default action will be to rebuild with symbolic links
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