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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:43:04 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: create a "real" windows shortcut ??
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In-Reply-To: <200108070726.DAA12671@ns1.das.harvard.edu>; from george_planansky@harvard.edu on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:26:30AM -0400

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:26:30AM -0400, George Planansky wrote:
> How to create a windows shortcut to a file,
> under cygwin?
> 
> E.g., I'd like to create a 
> desktop shortcut to a /usr/local/bin/backup.bat file, 
> which:
> 
> 1. when clicked on by the user on the desktop,
> will run /usr/local/bin/backup.bat .
> 
> 2. will open /usr/local/bin/backup.bat in wordpad,
> so the user can edit that file.
> 
> using ln -s  ..., I can get (1) but not (2) to work.

You can't. What happens on (2)? Does it start notepad?
You'll have to change the association of the .bat suffix
to wordpad in Windows.

Corinna

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