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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Frank-Michael Moser Subject: Re: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:03:51 +0200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <0B9EBBE7CA79D7118FD00002B3B2B9B9108F4FB9@nm75ex51.das.honeywell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Fred Kulack wrote: > On 08/03/2005 at 03:42:34 PM, cygwin-owner wrote: > > I don't know the original posters environment or exactly what problems > he's trying to solve, but I'd recommend liberal use of the cygwin command > line, > mount points, symlinks and > cygpath-dash-w-using-scripts-and-aliases-that-launch-windows-utils. > > I've found this to be a great way to have a rational sort of directory > structure and get me out of drive letter and c:/Documents\ and\ > Settings/Administrator/My\ Documents > hell to blissful /doc ignorance (in most cases). 8-) The big difference between junction points and cygwin's symlinks is that JPs are transparent to *any* Windows program and not only to the Cygwin world. Frank-Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/