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From: "Mark Southern" <mrsouthern AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Symlink implementation: support of shell links???
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 18:06:27 -0400
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Correct me if i am wrong with any of this...

Windows 98 thru XP ( with the .NET framework installed ) support shell
links. These are different from shortcuts. A shell link is a folder ( with a
couple of files inside it ) that points to another folder (ie a symlink).
The benefit of this approach is that in shell link aware applications (such
as windows explorer etc.) these show up as directories rather than shortcut
(.lnk) files and enable browsing. As far as i can see, cmd.exe does not
support shell links.

For a better explaination of this see < http://www.pearlmagik.com/winbolic/
>. This is a great tool for creating shell links.



My question for discussion is: should cygwin support shell links as
directory symlinks or as mount points??



Mark.

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