On 9/20/2021 5:45 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
I have about 99 ".lnk" files in my /bin dir.
What are these for?
They are shortcut style symlinks. See
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
Console2 a2ping a5toa4 adhocfilelist
amstex arara arlatex authorindex
bibexport bundledoc cachepic chkweb
cron_diagnose.sh ctanify ctanupload de-macro
dtxgen dviasm dvigif dvilj6
Most of these come from TeX Live. I tried searching for some of the others
(such as Console2) at
https://cygwin.com/packages/
and they are not in the current Cygwin distro. I don't know why you still have
them.
So why are these in the /bin directory since they don't
work on the command line (like in BASH).
Cygwin should recognize them as symlinks.
So why would ".lnk" files be used in cygwin packages since they don't
work under cygwin, but are 'explorer' links.
What happens if you type 'amstex --help' in a Cygwin shell?
Ken
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