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Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP
- From: Jeff dot Hodges at KingsMountain dot com
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Jan Hlavacek <jhlavace at svsu dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:25:35 -0800
- Subject: Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP
- Reply-to: Jeff dot Hodges at KingsMountain dot com
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com said:
> There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon
> problem.
Super. Tho, will fixing "the icon problem" also fix the behavior dichotomy
between Explorer and Open/Save dialogs (which I noted in my original posting
in this thread)?
> If you want to use a shortcut in Cygwin and in native Windows, create
> it in Cygwin and don't touch it.
Indeed, and that appears to work fine on Win2k but not XP (yet).
JeffH
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