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 Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:23:42 +0200 Message-Id: <200103031723.TAA20710@linux.> From: "Ehud Karni" To: Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com Subject: Re: New symlinks. CC: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <3AA00EF1.8F172E6C@digitalfocus.com> (message from Daniel Barclay on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:21:54 -0500) Organization: Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency Reply-to: ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E220@IIS000> <200102281857.UAA05162@linux.> <20010228183811.B5603@redhat.com> <200103021239.OAA03969@linux.> <3AA00EF1.8F172E6C@digitalfocus.com> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 rmail (send-msg 1.104) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:21:54 -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > ... > > The real problem of Windows .lnk files (within Windows use) is that > > even though you can make link to a directory, you can not really use > > it. Unlike UNIX, you can not use .lnk files as middle part of path, > > it may only be used as the terminating part (basename) of a path. > > Why not? Or, probably, "where not"? > > In the Window UI, you can have links (shortcuts) to directories. > Conceptually, these are in the middle part of a path (the virtual > path you tranverse step by step in the UI). > > Are links not usable in the middle of pathnames given to the command-line > interpreter? Or are links not usuable in pathnames given to Windows OS > calls for file operations. I guess in both. I checked by giving a path to 1: the built in "run" (BTW with its "browse" you can't even traverse the link). 2: as file to open to `notepad' and other native M$ windows utilities. BOTH FAILED ! Ehud. -- @@@@@@ @@@ @@@@@@ @ @ Ehud Karni Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency @ @ @ @@ @ Tel: +972-3-6212-757 Fax: +972-3-6292-544 @ @ @ @ @ @@ (USA) Fax and voice mail: 1-815-5509341 @ @ @ @ @ @ Better Safe Than Sorry http://www.simonwiesel.co.il mailto:ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple