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Re: New symlinks.
- To: ehud at unix dot simonwiesel dot co dot il
- Subject: Re: New symlinks.
- From: Daniel Barclay <Daniel dot Barclay at digitalfocus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:21:54 -0500
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E220@IIS000> <200102281857.UAA05162@linux.> <20010228183811.B5603@redhat.com> <200103021239.OAA03969@linux.>
Ehud Karni wrote:
>
...
> The real problem of Windows .lnk files (within Windows use) is that
> even though you can make link to a directory, you can not really use
> it. Unlike UNIX, you can not use .lnk files as middle part of path,
> it may only be used as the terminating part (basename) of a path.
Why not? Or, probably, "where not"?
In the Window UI, you can have links (shortcuts) to directories.
Conceptually, these are in the middle part of a path (the virtual
path you tranverse step by step in the UI).
Are links not usable in the middle of pathnames given to the command-line
interpreter? Or are links not usuable in pathnames given to Windows OS
calls for file operations.
Daniel
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