When I try to use a windows shortcut file in cygwin it doesn't seem to work. In the example that I tried, misc.lnk is the name of the shortcut from windows.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Finance>ls Auto.xls Copy of Daniel Adams.mny Financial Plan.doc Insurance Inventory.doc Stock Stats.xls stock.xls Bills.xls Daniel Adams.mny Fraud Hotline 1800.doc Misc.lnk other Checks.xls Distribution.xls History.xls Paychecks.xls personal.mdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Finance>cd Misc.lnk Misc.lnk: Not a directory. That is the attempt I did, with the output. Do I need to do something specific to get this to work? Dan "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have not tested this but per the docs on cygwin site the new version > does follow windows shortcut link files. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Adams > > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 2:39 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Symbolic Links > > > > > > Part of the reason I am interested in this, I guess I forgot > > to say is to be able to have both Windows and Cygwin > > recognize the links. If I use the windows shortcut creation, > > cygwin doesn't recognize it. If I use the cygwin thing below, > > excel doesn't recognize it, but windows does. > > > > Dan > > > > "Dan Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi, I have been using the symbolic links feature of cygwin to link > > > from > > one > > > folder to another in my system. I know that is not a big beneficial > > > use of cygwin, but it is one that adds to the benefit of cygwin. I > > > also use > > cygwin > > > for other stuff. > > > > > > I was wondering, does anyone know is something specific is > > needed to > > > be > > able > > > to link from one folder to another, for example I am linking from > > > C:\My Documents to D:\Finance in a link file called other. Honestly > > > this works > > in > > > the file manager part of windows explorer, one desire I > > have ot this > > > would be to be able to use this in Microsoft Excel by > > clicking on the > > > "My Documents" link on the left side and then by opening the folder > > > called "other" in the file list. The only problem with this > > is that by > > > using the command "ln -s "D:\Finance" other" does not > > actually let the > > > folder show > > up > > > in excel. Is this possible, or is this maybe a future feature that > > > will be implemented? If it is in the feature, I know I would > > > appreciate the > > ability. > > > > > > Dan Adams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.infochi.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > > > -- 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/
