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). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
