Mellem, Dan wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Max Bowsher On: 7/14/03 2:08 PM >> Importantly, a Cygwin symlink contains a *POSIX* path. The fact that the >> symlink is also a windows shortcut is essentially just decoration. >> Obviously, a normal shortcut does not contain a POSIX path. It would >> probably be possible to deduce one, but there are good reasons for not doing >> so: Extra data (icon, etc.) would be removed when shortcuts were saved and >> restored with tar, for example. > > Oh, I see. A utility to convert Shortcuts to symlinks would be very useful > for this. I'm going to try to hack something up in PERL with the > Win32::Shortcut module I found but I still need to find the file layout for > the symlinks.
Well, if you are using *Cygwin* perl, look no further than `perldoc -f symlink`. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
