Part of the reason I am interested in this, I guess I forgot to say is to be able to have both Windows and Cygwin recognize the links. If I use the windows shortcut creation, cygwin doesn't recognize it. If I use the cygwin thing below, excel doesn't recognize it, but windows does.
Dan "Dan Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, I have been using the symbolic links feature of cygwin to link from one > folder to another in my system. I know that is not a big beneficial use of > cygwin, but it is one that adds to the benefit of cygwin. I also use cygwin > for other stuff. > > I was wondering, does anyone know is something specific is needed to be able > to link from one folder to another, for example I am linking from C:\My > Documents to D:\Finance in a link file called other. Honestly this works in > the file manager part of windows explorer, one desire I have ot this would > be to be able to use this in Microsoft Excel by clicking on the "My > Documents" link on the left side and then by opening the folder called > "other" in the file list. The only problem with this is that by using the > command "ln -s "D:\Finance" other" does not actually let the folder show up > in excel. Is this possible, or is this maybe a future feature that will be > implemented? If it is in the feature, I know I would appreciate the ability. > > Dan Adams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.infochi.com > > > > -- 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/