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Re: cd'ing to a shortcut
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cd'ing to a shortcut
- From: "Alex P. Madarasz, Jr." <madarasz at erols dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:47:05 -0400
- Organization: Erols Internet
- References: <DBCEC26B129DD1119E4D00805FA749F718932C@excnor-01.microcom.com>
- Reply-to: Alex Madarasz <madarasz at erols dot com>
Michael Weiser wrote on 20 Sep 98, 17:55 :
>
> >> 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...
Actually, AFAIK only the POSIX layer of NT 4 exposes link features, and ?only
for hard links. NT 5 NTFS supports "reparse points", which sound like they
should have all the features needed for Unix-like links.
--
Alex P. Madarasz, Jr. -- madarasz@erols.com
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