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Re: Possible Documentation Inconsistency


On Mar 10 22:17, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#using-shortcuts
> 
> By default, Cygwin uses a mechanism that creates symbolic links that are
> compatible with standard Microsoft .lnk files.
> 
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html#cygwinenv-implemented-options
> 
> (no)winsymlinks ... Defaults to not set since plain file symlinks are
> faster to write and faster to read.

Thanks for the heads-up.  Somehow the text doesn't fit well anymore.
Is that better?

  Another problem area is between Unix-style links, which link one file
  to another, and Microsoft .lnk files, which provide a shortcut to a
  file.  They seem similar at first glance but, in reality, are fairly
  different.  By default, Cygwin does not create symlinks as .lnk files,
  but there's an option to do that, see <xref: CYGWIN environment variable>
  These symlink .lnk files are compatible with Windows-created .lnk files,
  but they are still different.  They do not include much of the information
  that is available in a standard Microsoft shortcut, such as the working
  directory, an icon, etc.  The cygutils package includes a mkshortcut
  utility for creating standard native Microsoft .lnk files.

  But here's the problem.  If Cygwin handled these native shortcuts like any
  other symlink, [...]

I'm open for suggestions to phrase that more eloquently.


Corinna

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