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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:32:27 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: Mathis Severin <Severin DOT Mathis AT swisslife DOT ch>
CC: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: Symbolic links
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Mathis Severin wrote:
> 
> 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.

Neither symbolic links nor mount points created with Cygwin are
transparent to native Windows applications. Better use a Cygwin
compiled vim or similar...

Corinna

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