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John Paulson wrote: > > I like the proposal to unify Windows and Cygwin symlinks. However, one > minor problem can occur: under *nix I can have files with the extension > .lnk, with no special semantics associated with it. I can tar up a directory > containing .lnk files on my *nix box and untar them on my cygwin box. What > happens to those files with the .lnk extension? I think this will be another > bit of Windows-vs-the-world festivity (as occurred with one source tarball > recently which had a directory named "AUX"). > > Even with that potential hassle, unification is the correct choice. > Just for kicks, after reading this post, I did `touch foo.lnk' and have a circular reference to foo.lnk. The directory listing actually shows the filename as foo.lnk. I then decided to `cat << EOF > abc.lnk' and actually put data in the file. This time the listing doesn't show a circular reference and cat abc.lnk gives me the contents of the file. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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