At 01:14 PM 2/12/2004, Chris Jefferson you wrote: >Cygwin includes quite a number of symlinks. I personally have changed a number of >the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones to fix (as has been mentioned >recently) the problem that cygwin-style symlinks don't work from cmd > >Would it be possible to automagically change all the cygwin-style symlinks to >windows-style ones? is there anything I should watch for if I attempted such a thing?
Setup creates the "old-style" symlinks. A patch to it that creates "new-style" is one way of automagically doing this. A script could be concocted too. 'ln -s' creates the "new-style" by default. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
