From: madarasz@erols.com (Alex P. Madarasz, Jr.) Subject: Re: cd'ing to a shortcut 23 Sep 1998 03:20:46 -0700 Message-ID: <199809221646.MAA13022.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp1.erols.com> References: <36094125.7803320@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> Reply-To: Alex Madarasz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Michael Weiser wrote on 20 Sep 98, 17:55 : > > >> You simply cannot cd into Windows shortcuts because cygwin32 doesn't > >> know about .lnk files and their magic. > > > >It's too bad they're not so magical -- only the explorer shell knows > >about them, not the file system. They're good as far as they go; the > >problem is they don't go very far, not even in the Windows world. > > Jep, agreed. Real softlinks shouldn't be any problem on NTFS... Actually, AFAIK only the POSIX layer of NT 4 exposes link features, and ?only for hard links. NT 5 NTFS supports "reparse points", which sound like they should have all the features needed for Unix-like links. -- Alex P. Madarasz, Jr. -- madarasz@erols.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".