[Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request

Thorsten Kampe thorsten@thorstenkampe.de
Tue May 1 20:01:00 GMT 2007


* Thorsten Kampe (Tue, 1 May 2007 20:49:59 +0100)
> * Brian Dessent (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:25:15 -0700)
> > Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > What about this "winsymlinks" Cygwin environment variable? The
> > > description says "if set, Cygwin creates symlinks as Windows shortcuts
> > > with a special header and the R/O attribute set. If not set, Cygwin
> > > creates symlinks as plain files with a magic number, a path and the
> > > system attribute set. Defaults to set".
> > > 
> > > So why don't the symlinks "work" under Windows (despite being "created
> > > as Windows shortcuts with a special header")??
> > 
> > They do work, in Explorer.  Or in common dialogs, like file-open,
> > file-save-as, etc.  But CMD.EXE doesn't know anything about Explorer
> > shortcuts, so it will never do the right thing.
> 
> I can't confirm that: I've created a shortcut to setup.exe and started 
> the link called setup.lnk in cmd.exe and setup.exe was started. The 
> same with a command line program.

Okay, but the shortcut has to be called with the .lnk extension.


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