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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:06:03 -0400
To: Thomas Meggs <tom AT nsa DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality
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At 01:16 PM 8/12/2005, you wrote:

>I have a feature request, or at least a request for discussion
>about a feature.
>
>Has any effort gone into exploring the possibility of having a
>duality for .lnk files? Where shortcuts could represent symbolic
>links in cygwin, and symbolic links in cygwin could represent
>windows shortcuts?
>
>That would be incredible.


You should take a look through the email archives if you're interested in 
starting some discussion on this topic.  It has come up before, as well as
the notion of using Windows reparse points in some similar way.  There are 
good reasons for the way things work now.  You can get a better 
understanding of these important points by reviewing that history.




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