Symbolic links.

[Jens Yllman]

  Hi,

  setup.exe uses the old symbolic links when it installs packages. Is this 
realy correct?

  Then I noticed some talk about .lnk here on the list. .lnk files created 
from windows may contain alot more information then a .lnk file created by 
cygwin as a symbolic link.

  I think that a .lnk file created by windows can not be treated as a 
symbolic link in cygwin. At least not in the archiving sence.

  You might say that why archive windows files with a UNIX tool? At the 
moment I'm spending alot of time trying to make may programs compile with 
both Borland C++, Visual C++ and gcc. And those project may contain .lnk 
files that are not symbolic links in the cygwin sence. And should be 
presesrved when archived.

  So using the .lnk for symbolic links may be a bad choose. Using a 
fileformat that can contain/handle more then one thing is not a good thing 
if used in a system for only one thing.

  These are just my thougts. I've not read through all the posts on this 
list. So I might state something that is already clear.

  Jens Yllman



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