On Aug 3 18:39, Adam Wolbach wrote: > Coda's current symlink support in cygwin is nonexistent, but we are > looking to support symlinks in the same manner cygwin appears to -- as > special Windows shortcuts that cygwin can interpret as symlinks. > Allowing cygwin to see our conflicts as broken symlinks would be a big > win for our repair mechanisms. We looked at the internals of a Windows > .lnk shortcut file and (of course) part appears binary; we assume > somewhere along the line that the cygwin developers reverse-engineered > the contents of these files to hijack them for their own purposes. > > First question, I've hunted for this information around the website, in > the past mailing-list archives and the web, and it doesn't appear > readily available. Is there anyone on the list who knows more about the > internals of Windows shortcuts and could clue the Coda developers in?
Try this: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format The first match http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the shortcut stuff. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
