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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:06:24 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: New symlinks.
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In-Reply-To: <20010228135244.I8464@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:52:44PM +0100

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 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 ;-)

I HEARTILY disagree with this.  We have repeatedly see the confusion of people
on this mailing list on all matter of subjects.  I have no reason to assume that
having files with a .lnk extension will be any different -- especially since
Microsoft goes out of its way to hide the extension itself.

cgf

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