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Subject: Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:32:14 -0800
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On 12/14/2011 12:14 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Might CYGWIN=winsymlinks help?
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
I don't see how. I think that I need the .lnk portion of the file. It's 
not clear to me from that link's description that setting winsymlinks 
gives me .lnk.

Hmmm... Just tested. Ah yes! The winsymlinks seems to do the trick! Thanks!
> More:
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.symlinkstoppedworking
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.api.symlinks
>
Thanks for the references...
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