X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:32:14 -0800 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <4EE90067.9020109@bopp.net> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A43E78632@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A43E78632@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> X-Stationery: 0.7.7 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 12/14/2011 12:14 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Might CYGWIN=winsymlinks help? > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html I don't see how. I think that I need the .lnk portion of the file. It's not clear to me from that link's description that setting winsymlinks gives me .lnk. Hmmm... Just tested. Ah yes! The winsymlinks seems to do the trick! Thanks! > More: > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.symlinkstoppedworking > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.api.symlinks > Thanks for the references... -- Andrew DeFaria Never argue with a fool; he will soon beat you with his experience. -- 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