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RE: cd'ing to a shortcut


> 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.

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Fred 
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