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Subject: Re: mkshortcut seems to not work correctly recently...
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:06 PM, John Refling wrote:
>
> It seems that mkshortcut is failing as of the last few weeks (when I did an
> upgrade to latest Cygwin).  Upgrade as of today shows the same problems.  I
> have scripts that use mkshortcut that have not changed in a long time, which
> worked before, and now do not.

This doesn't answer your question but gives you another method.  I
create shortcuts using a text file with a .url extension.  This is an
INI style file that looks similar to the following and creates an
internet shortcut but using a file.  This provides me a method to edit
the file with ViM if I need to.

<file name="foo.url">
[InternetShortcut]
URL=file:///c:/cygwin/bin/bar.exe
IconIndex=0
IconFile=file:///c:/cygwin/Cygwin.ico
HotKey=0
IDList=
</file>

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