On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Adam Wolbach wrote: > > http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format > > > > The first match > > > > http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf > > > > is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the > > shortcut stuff. > > Thanks, this gets me more than halfway to what I need to know -- the > missing piece is how these fields need to be filled out to appear as a > symbolic link to cygwin. Worst case I can just hunt through the cygwin > source, but if you happen to know or have notes lying around somewhere, > it might be useful to more than just us to post them somewhere. Thanks > again.
Your best source of information is probably symlink_worker() in <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc?content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src&only_with_tag=HEAD>. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/
