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RE: cd'ing to a shortcut
- To: "'michael at weiser dot saale-net dot de'" <michael at weiser dot saale-net dot de>, "Jose I. Cabrera" <cabrera at wrc dot xerox dot com>
- Subject: RE: cd'ing to a shortcut
- From: "Calm, Fred" <Fred dot Calm at compaq dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 08:57:44 -0500
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
> 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.
--
Fred
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