On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:50:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So Excel thinks that the Symbolic link is a File and not a Link.
Bad luck. That's not under our control, obviously. > A link made by Windows Explorere is not usable in cygwin. That's by design. An Explorer link contains more information than just the path to the target. So, if Cygwin considers an Explorer link as symlink, you couldn't e. g. tar it up without loss since untar'ing would just restore the path information but not the icon, the working directory, the stratup info, etc., etc., ... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/