Re: ln and mkshortcut inconsistent in handling of .exe extension

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 02:23 PM 9/29/2003, Matt Swift you wrote:
>  2) The files "symlink-to-base" "symlink-to-base.exe" should have the
>     .exe extension silently added to the Windows shortcut target: at
>     present, the files are not valid Windows shortcuts (they appear
>     to Windows Explorer as a shortcut, but have an empty "Target"
>     which can not be altered in the usual way; the Comment field is
>     correct).  This behavior would match `mkshortcut''s, which adds
>     the .exe extension to the Target when it is not supplied on the
>     command-line (what appeared on the command-line appears verbatim
>     in the Comment field, however).


'ln' and 'mkshortcut' have different behavior for a reason.  See 
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#AEN1516>.
The difference is why 'mkshortcut' exists.  Otherwise, we'd just have
'ln' (which is all we had for quite some time until the need for 
different behavior was realized).



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