Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: Sam Edge To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: using Windows links Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 16:26:29 +0100 Organization: . Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g42FQkG02229 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 hides it for Cygwin-generated Windows shorcuts- and only for Cygwin-generated shortcuts. (Cygwin-generated ones have the read-only FAT/NTFS attribute set as a first clue and have a marker in them to tell Cygwin that they're symlinks not just shortcuts.) If you don't like this, then put "nowinsymlinks" in your CYGWIN environment variable and ln -s will create old-style Cygwin symlink files (without any extension) instead of Windows shortcuts. An example; $ echo $CYGWIN binmode ntsec notitle check_case:adjust $ ln -s "../RFC Copies/rfc0768.txt" . $ ls -l rfc0768.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 SamEdge None 130 Apr 29 17:11 rfc0768.txt -> ../RFC copies/rfc0768.txt $ ls -l rfc0768.txt.lnk lrwxrwxrwx 1 SamEdge None 130 Apr 29 17:11 rfc0768.txt.lnk -> ../RFC copies/rfc0768.txt Looking using CMD.EXE there is only one file "rfc0768.txt.lnk" and with Explorer you see one file "rfc0768.txt" as a shortcut. (You don't see the extension in Explorer even with the option to see extension enabled because HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk has a default value "lnkfile" in the registry and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile contains an empty string value called "NeverShowExt." Here ends the Windows shell tutorial.) ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/