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From: "Joshua Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've written a program that does just this. It's a
> fully scriptable and can set icons. I'm
> hoping to get it included in cygwin sometime, but
> I'm waiting until the new setup.exe comes out to
> bother developer
> The Windows term for these things is 'shortcut'.
> Perhaps you want to call your tool mkshortcut?
> Yeah, it's longer, but it's less ambiguous than
> mklink. There's already enough confusion between
> linking executables from object modules and hard and
> symbolic links in the file syste
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Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 4:05 PM
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Subject: Re: How to create a windows link in script?
> I would like to be able to create a .lnk file to a
> batch file (and ideally associate an icon with it)
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> I would like to be able to create a .lnk file to a
> batch file (and ideally associate an icon with it)
> from a bash script on a Windows 2000 machine.
I've written a program that does just this. It's a
fully scriptable and can set icons. I'm
hoping to get it included in cygwin sometime, but
Roland,
Well, I was going to say this:
If this is a one-off sort of thing, just use Windows Explorer (i.e., the
Properties dialog) to set the icon on the ".lnk" file (shortcut) that
results from invoking "ln -s ".
However, I find that the resulting .lnk file won't allow the icon to be
chang
I would like to be able to create a .lnk file to a batch file (and ideally associate
an icon with it) from a bash script on a Windows 2000 machine.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I think "ln -s" used to work, but has since been improved? Anyway, this does not
provide the functionality for t
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