Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:09:23 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: links does not work und windows Programm Message-ID: <20030311130923.GD13544@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200303110950.h2B9ob819126@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303110950.h2B9ob819126@mailgate5.cinetic.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:50:37AM +0100, fj_br_@web.de wrote: > So Excel thinks that the Symbolic link is a File and not a Link. Bad luck. That's not under our control, obviously. > A link made by Windows Explorere is not usable in cygwin. That's by design. An Explorer link contains more information than just the path to the target. So, if Cygwin considers an Explorer link as symlink, you couldn't e. g. tar it up without loss since untar'ing would just restore the path information but not the icon, the working directory, the stratup info, etc., etc., ... 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/