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 Message 1943 
 Andrew Leary to Deon George 
 Disable creation of softlinks 
 16 Mar 19 08:28:53 
 
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Hello Deon!

16 Mar 19 11:44, you wrote to all:

 DG> When MBSE tosses incoming files, is there a setting to stop it
 DG> creating a symlink? I was going to look through the code, but I
 DG> thought I'd ask here too, in case this route provides a quicker answer
 DG> ;)

There isn't a setting to prevent the creation of symlinks.  MBSE creates 
symlinks to ensure that every file has both an 8.3 DOS compatible filename and 
the "real" full filename.

Andrew

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