Subject: RE: cd'ing to a shortcut
From: [email-masked] (Calm, Fred)

18 Sep 1998 17:20:31 -0700
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To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>,
        "Jose I. Cabrera" <[email-masked]>
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> You simply cannot cd into Windows shortcuts because cygwin32 doesn't
> know about .lnk files and their magic. 
> 
It's too bad they're not so magical -- only the explorer shell knows about
them, not the file system. They're good as far as they go; the problem is
they don't go very far, not even in the Windows world.

--
Fred 
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