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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Mellem, Dan" <Dan DOT Mellem AT pomona DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <4B8A0478615FD3118F1600508B0BB71B02F61ACD AT pusd-mail DOT pusd DOT org>
Subject: Re: Problem with dereference option on Windows LNKs (shortcuts)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:28:38 +0100
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Mellem, Dan wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Max Bowsher  On: 7/14/03 2:08 PM
>> Importantly, a Cygwin symlink contains a *POSIX* path. The fact that the
>> symlink is also a windows shortcut is essentially just decoration.
>> Obviously, a normal shortcut does not contain a POSIX path. It would
>> probably be possible to deduce one, but there are good reasons for not
doing
>> so: Extra data (icon, etc.) would be removed when shortcuts were saved
and
>> restored with tar, for example.
>
> Oh, I see. A utility to convert Shortcuts to symlinks would be very useful
> for this. I'm going to try to hack something up in PERL with the
> Win32::Shortcut module I found but I still need to find the file layout
for
> the symlinks.

Well, if you are using *Cygwin* perl, look no further than `perldoc -f
symlink`.

Max.


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