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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:03:58 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
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In-Reply-To: <20010222183028.Q908@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:30:28PM +0100

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:30:28PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:36:56AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:27:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >The problem is that a shortcut has to contain a DOS path, obviously.
>> >The new strategy is as follows:
>> 
>> If this is the case, then we can't use .lnk files as the default symlinks.
>> DOS paths are not UNIX paths.  The mount table will be bypassed in the symlinks.
>
>Nooo! The shortcut contains a DOS path which will be used by native
>Windows tools _and_ a POSIX path which will be used by Cygwin.

Thanks for the clarification.

cgf

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