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* cygwinenv.sgml (cygwinenv-implemented-options): Change description 

for winsymlink option to explain new implementation.
	* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.19): Add support for native symlinks and
	AFS.
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2013-04-23 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* cygwinenv.sgml (cygwinenv-implemented-options): Change description
for winsymlink option to explain new implementation.
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.19): Add support for native symlinks and
AFS.
2013-04-23 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* Throughout, eliminate Windows 2000 from the documentation.

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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>(no)winsymlinks</envar> - if set, Cygwin creates
symlinks as Windows shortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute
set. If not set, Cygwin creates symlinks as plain files with a magic number,
a path and the system attribute set. Defaults to not set since plain
file symlinks are faster to write and faster to read.</para>
<para><envar>winsymlinks:{lnk,native}</envar> - if set to just
<literal>winsymlinks</literal> or <literal>winsymlinks:lnk</literal>,
Cygwin creates symlinks as Windows shortcuts with a special header and
the R/O attribute set. If set to <literal>winsymlinks:native</literal>,
Cygwin creates symlinks as native Windows symlinks as supported by NTFS
since Windows Vista/2008.
If not set, Cygwin creates symlinks as plain files with a magic number,
a path and the DOS SYSTEM attribute set by default, unless this is not
supported by the underlying filesystem. For instance, on MVFS symlinks
are always created as Windows shortcuts, because it doesn't support the
DOS SYSTEM attribute, on AFS always as native symlink because it doesn't
support DOS attributes. On NFS, symlinks are always created as native
symlinks of the underlying filesystem.
</para>
<para>Please note that symlinks created under Cygwin 1.7 or later are
not readable by older Cygwin releases because the new symlinks use UTF-16

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Add support for building a 64 bit version of Cygwin on x86_64 natively.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Add support for creating native NTFS symlinks starting with Windows Vista
by setting the CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native option.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Add support for AFS filesystem.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>