From: lsmith AT cio2000 DOT eds DOT com (Larry Smith)
Subject: Shortcuts and shortcuts do not mix [Was: cd'ing to a shortcut]
22 Sep 1998 06:28:19 -0700
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To: "Matthew O. Persico" <mpersico AT erols DOT com>
Cc: Michael Weiser <michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de>,
        "Jose I. Cabrera" <cabrera AT wrc DOT xerox DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com,
        xemacs-nt AT xemacs DOT org

Windows shortcuts and cygnus symbolic links are two different
animals. The cygnus code does its best to implement the semantics of
Unix semantic links without help from the operating system. And as far
as the Cygnus code is concerned, a .lnk file is just another
binary-format file with some wierd contents. Whether your program of
interest chooses to follow through cygnus symbolic links or Windows
shortcut files (or both) is up to the application.

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