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Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> It would be a good thing to have the file in some package (cygwin or >> base-files), but it's not just the cygwin.bat file, it's also the >> desktop and menu shortcuts pointing to that file. Do we have a tool >> which allows to generate a shortcut with everything (cwd, icon, etc) >> from the commandline? > > mkshortcut from cygutils. However, there was recently reported a bug in > the cygwin-1.7 version of cygutils, specifically in mkshortcut: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00843.html'' > > I haven't had time to track it down yet Fixed in cygutils-1.4.1-2, thanks to Dave's patch. I think mkshortcut would be useful for what Corinna talks about above -- so long as the following is not a problem (from the cygutils release announcement): > TODO (call for patches): > ================================ > * Update lpr.cc and mkshortcut.c to use cygwin-1.7 cygwin_conv_path > instead of deprecated cygwin_conv_to_win32_path. > > * Update (some?) utilities to handle unicode filenames, similar to > IWAMURO Motonori's work on cygstart. Which utilities need this? > mkshortcut and lpr, probably. Any others? -- Chuck
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