X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:26:21 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Finding junction points in cygwin Message-ID: <20091110042621.GC6051@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20091109120333.GF26344@calimero.vinschen.de> <26269606.post@talk.nabble.com> <20091109171803.GK26344@calimero.vinschen.de> <26270509.post@talk.nabble.com> <20091109180913.GA14129@calimero.vinschen.de> <26272067.post@talk.nabble.com> <26272231.post@talk.nabble.com> <26273372.post@talk.nabble.com> <31b7d2790911091321y2f1b860fh79cd994f87d4f44c@mail.gmail.com> <26274197.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <26274197.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:41:50PM -0800, aputerguy wrote: > >"DePriest, Jason R." wrote: >> There is also the 'subst' command that lets you create a directory and >> point it to a drive. > >OK - now I am truly tearing out my hair as 'subst' makes #11. > >I'm thinking a table with the following columns would be very helpful: >A. Name of command >B. Source (e.g., Cygwin 1.x+, Windows ver X-Y, etc.) >C. Targets (e.g., files, directories, volumes) >D. Type of link/junction/mount point >E. *nix analogy and compatibility (including whether exact or similar) >F. Advantages relative to analogous concepts >G. Limitations, gotchas, etc. >H. How (or even if) handled by cygwin It's not clear whom you are expecting to prepare this comprehensive list. For Cygwin we clearly want you to use our symlinks. It's a bonus that Corinna has implemented any functionality for anything else at all. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple