RE: using Windows links

At 02:47 AM 5/3/2002, Mellman Thomas wrote: > >>-Original Message- > >>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:14 PM > >>To: Mellman Thomas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: RE: using Win

RE: using Windows links

>>-Original Message- >>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:14 PM >>To: Mellman Thomas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: using Windows links >> >> >>At 10:53 AM 5/2/2002, Mellm

Re: using Windows links

Mellman Thomas wrote in on Thu, 2 May 2002 16:53:06 +0200: > There's no h.lnk here. > Is this just a question of having the right frame-of-mind? Yes there is. In the same way that the Windows shell always hides the ".lnk" suffix, cygwin1.dll hide

RE: using Windows links

At 10:53 AM 5/2/2002, Mellman Thomas wrote: > >>> >>Just because it isn't recognized as a Cygwin symbolic link > >>> >>doesn't mean it > >>> >>doesn't exist as a file as far as Cygwin is concerned. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>The thing is, the Windows-created Shortcut is called > >>Desktop.lnk and I'

RE: using Windows links

>>> >>Just because it isn't recognized as a Cygwin symbolic link >>> >>doesn't mean it >>> >>doesn't exist as a file as far as Cygwin is concerned. >>> >>> >>> >>>The thing is, the Windows-created Shortcut is called >>Desktop.lnk and I'm trying to create simply Desktop. There >>is NO file call

RE: using Windows links

At 03:23 AM 5/2/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If it helps anybody, which it might not : in the entire Cygwin provision >there are I think a dozen *.lnk files. I found that 5 of them induced >objections from Norton ("invalid shortcuts"). As was pointed out to me on >this list, this is a Windows/N

RE: using Windows links

At 03:04 AM 5/2/2002, Mellman Thomas wrote: > >>-Original Message- > >>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:17 PM > >>To: Mellman Thomas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: using

RE: using Windows links

If it helps anybody, which it might not : in the entire Cygwin provision there are I think a dozen *.lnk files. I found that 5 of them induced objections from Norton ("invalid shortcuts"). As was pointed out to me on this list, this is a Windows/Norton glitch, not a Cygwin glitch ... but it bugged

RE: using Windows links

>>-Original Message- >>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:17 PM >>To: Mellman Thomas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: using Windows links >>>An interesting side effect: I have a shortc

Re: using Windows links

At 09:50 AM 4/30/2002, Mellman Thomas wrote: >I know this has been discussed quite a bit from various angles, but >after hours of searching through the mail archive, I can't seem to >find the angle that's important to me. > >I can create fine shortcuts with ln -s which are accessible by Windows, >

using Windows links

I know this has been discussed quite a bit from various angles, but after hours of searching through the mail archive, I can't seem to find the angle that's important to me. I can create fine shortcuts with ln -s which are accessible by Windows, but I can't seem to be able to use Windows Shortcut