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From:	"Dan Adams" <dan AT infochi DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Symbolic Links
Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:39:28 -0700
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Part of the reason I am interested in this, I guess I forgot to say is to be
able to have both Windows and Cygwin recognize the links. If I use the
windows shortcut creation, cygwin doesn't recognize it. If I use the cygwin
thing below, excel doesn't recognize it, but windows does.

Dan

"Dan Adams" <dan AT infochi DOT com> wrote in message
news:brl2a7$6uc$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org...
> Hi, I have been using the symbolic links feature of cygwin to link from
one
> folder to another in my system. I know that is not a big beneficial use of
> cygwin, but it is one that adds to the benefit of cygwin. I also use
cygwin
> for other stuff.
>
> I was wondering, does anyone know is something specific is needed to be
able
> to link from one folder to another, for example I am linking from C:\My
> Documents to D:\Finance in a link file called other. Honestly this works
in
> the file manager part of windows explorer, one desire I have ot this would
> be to be able to use this in Microsoft Excel by clicking on the "My
> Documents" link on the left side and then by opening the folder called
> "other" in the file list. The only problem with this is that by using the
> command "ln -s "D:\Finance" other" does not actually let the folder show
up
> in excel. Is this possible, or is this maybe a future feature that will be
> implemented? If it is in the feature, I know I would appreciate the
ability.
>
> Dan Adams - dan AT infochi DOT com
> http://www.infochi.com
>
>
>
>




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