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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: New symlinks.
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:58:32 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:06 PM
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: Re: New symlinks.
> 
> 
> 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.

People that only use the Windows GUI would be confused by the ".lnk"
extension if shown by cygwin, but as we don't show it by default there's no
problem. OTOH people used to CMD.exe will be used to the lnk suffix (as DIR
shows it) but should understand that cygwin is doing the same as Explorer,
and hide it.

So I don't think there will be so much confusion. In fact th econfusion
caused by ".lnk" should be less than the one caused by ".exe", as it is more
consistent: there's not this 
	$ if [ -r xxx ]; then cp xxx yyy; fi
	cp: xxx: No such file of directory
due to test finding xxx.exe but cp searching only xxx, not xxx.exe. With
symlinks as they are now this will work OK. So if someone is able to
understand the .exe stuff, they should have no problem with  .lnk :-).

Regards,

	Bernard
 
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