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Thorsten Kampe wrote: > What about this "winsymlinks" Cygwin environment variable? The > description says "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 set". > > So why don't the symlinks "work" under Windows (despite being "created > as Windows shortcuts with a special header")?? They do work, in Explorer. Or in common dialogs, like file-open, file-save-as, etc. But CMD.EXE doesn't know anything about Explorer shortcuts, so it will never do the right thing. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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