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From: Mathis Severin <Severin DOT Mathis AT swisslife DOT ch>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Symbolic links
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:46:25 +0200
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Hello

Environment: cygwin 1.1.2 on NT 4.0

I created a symbolic link to a file (ln -s /someDir/someFile someFile). 
Now I would like to open this file using for example notepad 
(notepad someFile). Instead of opening the file someFile, the file 
containing the link description is displayed in notepad. Is this the 
expected behaviour? Can this be changed by some settings?

A similar behaviour I get when trying to open a file on a mounted 
directory. For example trying to open the file /someFile 
(notepad /someFile), where / is mounted to c:\cygnus. This gives the
error: 'Cannot open the /someFile file'.

Thanks for your help.

Severin Mathis


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