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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:36:56AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:27:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >The problem is that a shortcut has to contain a DOS path, obviously.
> >The new strategy is as follows:
> 
> If this is the case, then we can't use .lnk files as the default symlinks.
> DOS paths are not UNIX paths.  The mount table will be bypassed in the symlinks.

Nooo! The shortcut contains a DOS path which will be used by native
Windows tools _and_ a POSIX path which will be used by Cygwin.

Corinna

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