I know this has been discussed quite a bit from various angles, but after hours of searching through the mail archive, I can't seem to find the angle that's important to me.
I can create fine shortcuts with ln -s which are accessible by Windows, but I can't seem to be able to use Windows Shortcuts with Cygwin. I might have resignedly accepted this as a consequence of having a great interface on a crummy os, except that I *could* follow Window's shortcuts before I just upgraded to 1.3.10. For example, there are all kinds of shortcuts scattered around my filesystem which have been installed by my company's tools which I used to be able to call from bash and put in the background. Then I could Alt-tab to that window and use the keyboard. Or, do an ls -l on them and see where they point to. Since 1.3.10, that doesn't work anymore: now I've always got to go reaching for the mouse. An interesting side effect: I have a shortcut (Desktop.lnk) on my $HOME that was originally created by Windows. I can't cd there anymore. I tried to create a second link for Cygwin (Desktop), but ln tells me it already exists! $ ln -s $nt/Desktop Desktop /bin/ln: creating symbolic link `Desktop' to `/cygdrive/c/WINNT/Profiles/mt099378/Desktop': File exists Thus, even though Desktop.lnk isn't recognized as anything special, it is anyway! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
