Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:30:14 -0400 From: tom AT nsa DOT org To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality Message-ID: <20050812203014.GD24621@nsa.org> References: <20050812171651 DOT GW24621 AT nsa DOT org> <6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20050812150046 DOT 03d74dd8 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050812150046.03d74dd8@pop.prospeed.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 03:06:03PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > You should take a look through the email archives if you're interested in > starting some discussion on this topic. It has come up before, as well as > the notion of using Windows reparse points in some similar way. There are > good reasons for the way things work now. You can get a better > understanding of these important points by reviewing that history. Thanks for the reply. I did some casual keyword searching, but didn't turn up anything. I'll check it out. -- /t mailto:tom AT nsa DOT org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/