I just tried something different on a hunch. The problem still occurs when this mkshortcut command is replaced by a simple "touch winshortcut.lnk". So the problem I'm having seems to be due to the filename extension, not the contents of the file. Files with other extensions work fine.
> # create a shortcut > cd /tmp/A/foo > mkshortcut \ > --arguments="mintty" \ > --name="winshortcut" \ > --workingdir="$HOME" \ > /bin/run -Fred -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
