At 01:16 PM 8/12/2005, you wrote: >I have a feature request, or at least a request for discussion >about a feature. > >Has any effort gone into exploring the possibility of having a >duality for .lnk files? Where shortcuts could represent symbolic >links in cygwin, and symbolic links in cygwin could represent >windows shortcuts? > >That would be incredible.
You should take a look through the email archives if you're interested in starting some discussion on this topic. It has come up before, as well as the notion of using Windows reparse points in some similar way. There are good reasons for the way things work now. You can get a better understanding of these important points by reviewing that history. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
