> I'm one of the MSys "devs" (if you want to call the sporadic process of > updating MSys "development"). I'll take a look at implementing > ln -s file dir > as synonymous with > ln -s file dir/basename-of-file > in the next few days.
Thanks, although the case we're really interested in here is: cp -p file dir as equivalent to cp -p file dir/basename-of-file Arno