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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:55:48 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Windows Shortcuts
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 02:36:24AM +0200, Erik Sinde wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> on my new XP home the windows shortcut format seems to have changed. (It worked well with NT 4).
> Cygwin  created shortcuts are approx. 150 bytes large, windows
> shortcuts 600 bytes. Unfortunately they don't recognise each other properly.

That is not an XP problem.  Not recognizing non-Cygwin symlinks is
by design due to trouble when trying to backup Windows shortcuts
with tar or similar.  That has been discussed on the list a year
or two ago.

Corinna

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