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Re: cd'ing to a shortcut


Hello Fred, you wrote:
>> You simply cannot cd into Windows shortcuts because cygwin32 doesn't
>> know about .lnk files and their magic. 
>It's too bad they're not so magical -- only the explorer shell knows about
>them, not the file system. They're good as far as they go; the problem is
>they don't go very far, not even in the Windows world.
Jep, agreed. Real softlinks shouldn't be any problem on NTFS...
-- 
bye, Michael
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