Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3A9D50EF.3ACEDF78@veritas.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:26:39 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: New symlinks. References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E220 AT IIS000> <20010228134433 DOT D2327 AT redhat DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I havn't seen this suggestion (maybe there's a good reason): how about adding a 'links' option to the CYGWIN variable? When set, it sets behaviour to show the .lnk extension. Default not set, don't show the extension. Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > >> -----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. > > I'm sorry but you are never, ever going to be able to convince me that > people will not be confused by the existence of a file with a '.lnk' > extension where they didn't specifically create one. That's why I > am advocating that it be hidden as much as possible. > > cgf > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple