Re: revisiting: windows .lnk working in cygwin; theoretical solution

2006-11-30 Thread Benjamin Madore
On Thu, November 30, 2006 1:42 am, Linda Walsh said: > > Current problem, as I understand it is that current *nix apps wouldn't see the extra windows fields, so if tar were to dump/restore, the extra information would be lost. > This, of course, has been a pickle several times for Apple. On the App

revisiting: windows .lnk working in cygwin; theoretical solution

2006-11-29 Thread Linda Walsh
I'm not saying all the pieces of this puzzle are in place yet, but supporting it could be done in a way as to minimize impact to existing "dumb apps", and future "extended-attribute-aware apps". I'm not suggesting anyone run off and implement this immediately, though that could be done and compat