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Re: Symbolic links
- To: Mathis Severin <Severin dot Mathis at swisslife dot ch>
- Subject: Re: Symbolic links
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:32:27 +0200
- CC: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <7C05304CF121D411BF4C0008C75D722B01363107@ns9850.swisslife.ch>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
Mathis Severin wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Environment: cygwin 1.1.2 on NT 4.0
>
> I created a symbolic link to a file (ln -s /someDir/someFile someFile).
> Now I would like to open this file using for example notepad
> (notepad someFile). Instead of opening the file someFile, the file
> containing the link description is displayed in notepad. Is this the
> expected behaviour? Can this be changed by some settings?
>
> A similar behaviour I get when trying to open a file on a mounted
> directory. For example trying to open the file /someFile
> (notepad /someFile), where / is mounted to c:\cygnus. This gives the
> error: 'Cannot open the /someFile file'.
>
> Thanks for your help.
Neither symbolic links nor mount points created with Cygwin are
transparent to native Windows applications. Better use a Cygwin
compiled vim or similar...
Corinna
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