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Re: Symbolic links
- To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at home dot com>,Cygwin List <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Symbolic links
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:22:20 -0500
At 11:32 AM 1/27/2001, David A. Cobb wrote:
>Is it, in principle, possible to use Windows "shortcuts" with the same
>semantics
>as Symlinks? Meaning, to have cygwindll parse the shortcut xxx.lnk file
>and
>do the linking?
Theoretically. It may be harder than it looks however. Certainly, if the
number of times this has been "suggested" but no implementation has ever
been offered is an indication, it's either harder to do than one would think
or far less interesting in practice than theory.
As always, "patches are gratefully accepted".
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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