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Subject: Re: ln and mkshortcut inconsistent in handling of .exe extension
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From: Matt Swift <swift AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:02:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030929161708.028d6fe0@127.0.0.1> (Larry Hall's
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>> "L" == Larry wrote:

    L> 'ln' and 'mkshortcut' have different behavior for a reason.  See 
    L> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#AEN1516>.
    L> The difference is why 'mkshortcut' exists.  Otherwise, we'd just have
    L> 'ln' (which is all we had for quite some time until the need for 
    L> different behavior was realized).



I had seen that discussion.  I found no discussion of the particular
interaction of shortcuts/symlinks and the special handling of the .exe
extension.  To predict the results of the commands I listed, I had to
experiment.

Second, I still don't understand why `ln' shouldn't behave the way I
suggested: how is it better the way it is than if `ln -s' never
created broken shortcuts and 'ln' (hardlink) defaulted to a target of
"foo.exe" when the supplied target "foo" doesn't exist?  


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