From: tjump AT cais DOT com (Theodore Jump) Subject: Re: cd'ing to a shortcut 17 Sep 1998 14:46:50 -0700 Message-ID: <360110b3.3716935.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp> References: <9809081457 DOT AA01063 AT dns DOT cise DOT it> Reply-To: tjump AT cais DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jose I. Cabrera" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >In my home, I added a shortcut to a directory that I use a lot. >How can I change to it from bash? When I cd to the shortcut name, >it tells me that I have no right. Here is the full screen: I don't believe that Cygwin can follow MS Windows Explorer Shortcuts (*.lnk files) yet; that it doesn't read them to interpret what they are a shortcut to - in other words, it sees it as a regular file and thus that is why you can't "cd" into it. This would, IMHO, be a useful addition but should not (IMHO again) be used as a replacement for the current softlink emulation. I believe this because the ..LNK files would then have to be used to softlink to "Cygwin" paths that may or may-not be valid under native Win32 non-Cygwin applications (like Explorer). ______________________________________________________________________ http://www.i21.com/~tjump http://www.fighterduel.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Congrats to Marco Pantani, Jan Ullrich, Bobby Julich, Erik Zabel, Christophe Rinero and all the rest of the riders of Le Tour '98! - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".