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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:03:00 +0800
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On 7/17/2010 00:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> It's a valid OS path.  The unfortunate side effect of its virtuality is
>> that it's not listed in a readdir call, so file completion doesn't work.
>> However, there's a funny workaround.  Just start an elevated bash:
>>
>>    $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows
>>    $ export CYGWIN=winsymlinks
>>    $ ln -s temp-file-name sysnative
>>    $ cmd /c ren temp-file-file.lnk sysnative.lnk
>
> s/temp-file-file/temp-file-name/
>
>

Thanks, this works nicely.

A minor nit with the commands, the ln directories should be switched 
around, otherwise temp-file-name.lnk gets placed in sysnative as I've 
found out.

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