On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> wrote: > Peng Yu wrote: >>> >>> No. Shortcuts created with Windows contain more and different > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> >>> information than Cygwin symlinks. If you need a symlink, create it >>> under Cygwin. >> >> If I am willing to loose the additional information, is there a way to >> convert a windows link to a cygwin link? > > Getting rid of the "additional information" addresses the "more" part > above. You need to handle the "different" part as well. But why do > all that work yourself when "ln -s" does it for you? OK, let's make > this question rhetorical. ;-)
Suppose I have many links that are generated by windows already and I want to convert them to cygwin links. To use 'ln -s' I have to have a way to automatically figuring what the target of a window link, but how? Is there such a cygwin command to extract the link from a windows link. Regards, Peng -- 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/
