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Subject: Re: New symlinks.
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:26:27 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:06 AM
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 :-)
> >

If they are using cygwin I think a certain amount of adaptation _is
required_. We're not trying to  build a new friendly GUI, we're trying
to take one of the most flexible computing environments and put it on
one of the least :]

> >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.

And Microsoft have been publicly slammed by the security community on
this and a number of related actions because of the reduction in user
environment awareness.

My vote: we expose the.lnk at at least one place in the interface. We
also make it interoperate seamlessly for scripts/batch files etc.
Rob


>
> cgf
>
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