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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:52:44 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: New symlinks.
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In-Reply-To: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E21C@IIS000>; from Dautrevaux@microprocess.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:41:56AM +0100

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:41:56AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> >  If "foo.lnk" is a valid shortcut, then I would say the real
> >  file "foo" should win. That is, the shortcut would be invisible.
> 
> That is IMHO the only consistent behaviour; together with cygwin refusing to
> create a link named foo (that is a WinFile named foo.lnk) if foo already
> exists (sorry Corinna, it's perhaps already done this way but I can't
> check). Cygwin should also refuse creating a file named foo if a link named
> foo (that is a WinFile named foo.lnk which is a valid shortcut) already
> exist.

Yup. Both is handled that way.

> another icon ;^). Don't underestimate people using Windows; most of them are
> not idiots and are used to Windows idiosyncrasisms, so when using cygwin
> they can adapt :-)

I wonder...

*restrain sarcasm*

...anyway, you may be right here ;-)

Corinna

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