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Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Peng Yu wrote on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:17 PM:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Mark Geisert <mark AT maxrnd DOT com> wrote:
>>> Peng Yu writes:
>>>> Is there such a cygwin command to extract the link from a windows
>>>> link.
>>> Did you not see Barry's response on this thread?
>> I missed it before I sent this message. Sorry.
> 
> One more thing that you should be aware of:
>   - The filename of a Windows shortcut is of the form <name.lnk>.
>   - The filename of a symbolic link    is of the form <name.lnk>.
> So if you create the link in the same directory as the shortcut,
> you will clobber the shortcut.

This is, of course, true by default with the current Cygwin release (1.5).
In the next (1.7), the default changes so there is no worry of clobbering
the Windows shortcut with "ln -s".

Everybody likes a little trivia, right? ;-)

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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