Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <397FF39B.E679A28C@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:32:27 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-SMP i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mathis Severin CC: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: Symbolic links References: <7C05304CF121D411BF4C0008C75D722B01363107@ns9850.swisslife.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mathis Severin wrote: > > Hello > > Environment: cygwin 1.1.2 on NT 4.0 > > I created a symbolic link to a file (ln -s /someDir/someFile someFile). > Now I would like to open this file using for example notepad > (notepad someFile). Instead of opening the file someFile, the file > containing the link description is displayed in notepad. Is this the > expected behaviour? Can this be changed by some settings? > > A similar behaviour I get when trying to open a file on a mounted > directory. For example trying to open the file /someFile > (notepad /someFile), where / is mounted to c:\cygnus. This gives the > error: 'Cannot open the /someFile file'. > > Thanks for your help. Neither symbolic links nor mount points created with Cygwin are transparent to native Windows applications. Better use a Cygwin compiled vim or similar... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@sources.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen@cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com