On May 16 14:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right. I hadn't considered that, but since the Windows shortcut is > fundamentally broken, you're right that stowing won't work for DLLs, or > outside of the Cygwin environment. (Philosophical question: which > component of Windows deserves the blame for the failure of the Windows > shortcut? The file system, the shortcut design, or the shell?)
The filesystem and the OS for not supporting symbolic links. Microsoft took an approach by implementing reparse points in W2K but since these reparse points only work for partitions and directories, it's still broken. > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/setup.hint > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1.tar.bz2 > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1-src.tar.bz2 Uploaded. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.
