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Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:47:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Symbolic links
To:	Mathis Severin <Severin DOT Mathis AT swisslife DOT ch>,
	"'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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Symbolic links are a Cygwin creation and can only be understood by Cygwin
programs.  If you open the symbolic link with anything other than a Cygwin
program you will see the magic string that makes it possible.

Cheers,
Earnie.
--- Mathis Severin <Severin DOT Mathis AT swisslife DOT ch> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Environment: cygwin 1.1.2 on NT 4.0
> 
> I created a symbolic link to a file (ln -s /someDir/someFile someFile). 
> Now I would like to open this file using for example notepad 
> (notepad someFile). Instead of opening the file someFile, the file 
> containing the link description is displayed in notepad. Is this the 
> expected behaviour? Can this be changed by some settings?
> 
> A similar behaviour I get when trying to open a file on a mounted 
> directory. For example trying to open the file /someFile 
> (notepad /someFile), where / is mounted to c:\cygnus. This gives the
> error: 'Cannot open the /someFile file'.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Severin Mathis
> 
> 
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