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, 7 Aug 2001 09:43:04 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: create a "real" windows shortcut ?? Message-ID: <20010807094304.E22015@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200108070726.DAA12671@ns1.das.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108070726.DAA12671@ns1.das.harvard.edu>; from george_planansky@harvard.edu on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:26:30AM -0400 On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:26:30AM -0400, George Planansky wrote: > How to create a windows shortcut to a file, > under cygwin? > > E.g., I'd like to create a > desktop shortcut to a /usr/local/bin/backup.bat file, > which: > > 1. when clicked on by the user on the desktop, > will run /usr/local/bin/backup.bat . > > 2. will open /usr/local/bin/backup.bat in wordpad, > so the user can edit that file. > > using ln -s ..., I can get (1) but not (2) to work. You can't. What happens on (2)? Does it start notepad? You'll have to change the association of the .bat suffix to wordpad in Windows. 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/