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: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:12:26 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cvs and .lnk files Message-ID: <20010731121226.A19130@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000701c119a7$33ff3280$5d754789@edinstonehaven> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000701c119a7$33ff3280$5d754789@edinstonehaven>; from keith_starsmeare@yahoo.co.uk on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:57:13AM +0100 On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:57:13AM +0100, Keith Starsmeare wrote: > I've run into a problem using cygwin and CVS; it doesn't like checking out > files which use the lnk extension: > > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file .new.COSMIC.LNK to COSMIC.LNK: No > such file or directory > > I know that I should slap the person who used the lnk file extension (I > think these sources were originally for a DOS box; if that's any excuse!), > but is there a workaround? I checked them out onto a Linux box and then > tar'd them up and untar'd them on my NT box without problem (shouldn't tar > suffer the same problem?). > > This is probably due to the new symlinks (which I think are cool btw). It is and there's no workaround in 1.3.2. The next version will treat non-cygwin symlinks as normal files again. Only .lnk links created by Cygwin (or U/WIN, btw.) are then treated as symlinks. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/