On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:41:50PM -0800, aputerguy wrote: > >"DePriest, Jason R." wrote: >> There is also the 'subst' command that lets you create a directory and >> point it to a drive. > >OK - now I am truly tearing out my hair as 'subst' makes #11. > >I'm thinking a table with the following columns would be very helpful: >A. Name of command >B. Source (e.g., Cygwin 1.x+, Windows ver X-Y, etc.) >C. Targets (e.g., files, directories, volumes) >D. Type of link/junction/mount point >E. *nix analogy and compatibility (including whether exact or similar) >F. Advantages relative to analogous concepts >G. Limitations, gotchas, etc. >H. How (or even if) handled by cygwin
It's not clear whom you are expecting to prepare this comprehensive list. For Cygwin we clearly want you to use our symlinks. It's a bonus that Corinna has implemented any functionality for anything else at all. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple