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Re: using Windows links
- From: Sam Edge <sam_edgeZZZ at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 16:26:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: using Windows links
- Organization: .
- References: <BE684E2C997AD51199530002A56B20796C3644@MCHH2A1E>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Mellman Thomas wrote in
<BE684E2C997AD51199530002A56B20796C3644@MCHH2A1E>
on Thu, 2 May 2002 16:53:06 +0200:
> There's no h.lnk here.
> Is this just a question of having the right frame-of-mind?
Yes there is. In the same way that the Windows shell always hides the
".lnk" suffix, cygwin1.dll hides it for Cygwin-generated Windows
shorcuts- and only for Cygwin-generated shortcuts. (Cygwin-generated
ones have the read-only FAT/NTFS attribute set as a first clue and
have a marker in them to tell Cygwin that they're symlinks not just
shortcuts.)
If you don't like this, then put "nowinsymlinks" in your CYGWIN
environment variable and ln -s will create old-style Cygwin symlink
files (without any extension) instead of Windows shortcuts.
An example;
$ echo $CYGWIN
binmode ntsec notitle check_case:adjust
$ ln -s "../RFC Copies/rfc0768.txt" .
$ ls -l rfc0768.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 SamEdge None 130 Apr 29 17:11 rfc0768.txt ->
../RFC copies/rfc0768.txt
$ ls -l rfc0768.txt.lnk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 SamEdge None 130 Apr 29 17:11
rfc0768.txt.lnk -> ../RFC copies/rfc0768.txt
Looking using CMD.EXE there is only one file "rfc0768.txt.lnk" and
with Explorer you see one file "rfc0768.txt" as a shortcut. (You don't
see the extension in Explorer even with the option to see extension
enabled because HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk has a default value "lnkfile"
in the registry and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile contains an empty string
value called "NeverShowExt." Here ends the Windows shell tutorial.)
;-)
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Sam Edge
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