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Subject: Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP
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In-reply-to: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> 's message of Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:01:56 +0100
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:25:35 -0800
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corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com said:
> There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon
> problem.

Super. Tho, will fixing "the icon problem" also fix the behavior dichotomy 
between Explorer and Open/Save dialogs (which I noted in my original posting 
in this thread)?

>  If you want to use a shortcut in Cygwin and in native Windows, create
> it in Cygwin and don't touch it.

Indeed, and that appears to work fine on Win2k but not XP (yet).


JeffH



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