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On Jul 15 15:56, Garber, Dave (GE Energy, Non-GE) wrote:
> Using winsymlinks, it seems that if you create a symbolic link to a
> non-existent file, the POSIX target gets set, but the Windows target
> does not.  The cygpath command will return a valid Windows path for the
> non-existent file, so that should be used for the Windows target value.

Cygwin does that, but it doesn't help.  The target filename part of a
Windows symlink is created by calling the IShellFolder::ParseDisplayName
function.  This function fails with an error code 0x80070002 if the
target file does not exist.


Corinna

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