From: Fred DOT Calm AT compaq DOT com (Calm, Fred)
Subject: RE: cd'ing to a shortcut
18 Sep 1998 17:20:31 -0700
Message-ID: <DBCEC26B129DD1119E4D00805FA749F718932C.cygnus.gnu-win32@excnor-01.microcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
To: "'michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de'" <michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de>,
        "Jose I. Cabrera" <cabrera AT wrc DOT xerox DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> You simply cannot cd into Windows shortcuts because cygwin32 doesn't
> know about .lnk files and their magic. 
> 
It's too bad they're not so magical -- only the explorer shell knows about
them, not the file system. They're good as far as they go; the problem is
they don't go very far, not even in the Windows world.

--
Fred 
-
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".