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Date:	Wed, 12 May 2004 14:53:27 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygpath
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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:21:36AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>>It would be cool if cygpath had an option to resolve any symlinks and
>>shortcuts in the path.
>
>Yes, it would.  Patches thankfully accepted.  :)

I don't see this as a function of cygpath.  cygpath is for performing
operations on the windows environment.  Having it resolve symlinks is
outside of that scope.  You can use regular UNIX-like tools to do that.

cgf

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