RE: Why do symlinks need to be system files

I've been having problems making CD-R's with symbolic links (the kind made when nowinsymlinks is set) which function under cygwin. I wanted to put symbolic links on a CD-R which cygwin could follow on any machine. Then I could just toss in a CD, mount it under cygwin, and have the whole lot there,

RE: Why do symlinks need to be system files

Hi, Sure. Use new-style symlinks (i.e., shortcuts). They only need to be read-only, IIRC. Make sure your CYGWIN variable doesn't contain "nowinsymlinks", though. Igor Sounds right enough, but: don't the new-style symlinks always contain the full path to the file (e.g. e:\some_dir\some_fi