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Re: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points

Fred Kulack wrote:
> On 08/03/2005 at 03:42:34 PM, cygwin-owner wrote:
> 
> I don't know the original posters environment or exactly what problems 
> he's trying to solve, but I'd recommend liberal use of the cygwin command 
> line,
> mount points, symlinks and 
> cygpath-dash-w-using-scripts-and-aliases-that-launch-windows-utils.
> 
> I've found this to be a great way to have a rational sort of directory 
> structure and get me out of drive letter and c:/Documents\ and\ 
> Settings/Administrator/My\ Documents
> hell to blissful /doc ignorance (in most cases). 8-)

The big difference between junction points and cygwin's symlinks is that
JPs are transparent to *any* Windows program and not only to the Cygwin
world.

Frank-Michael


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