From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27620 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2006 20:55:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 27612 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2006 20:55:09 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:55:07 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G96gz-0005XU-E9 for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:54:49 +0200 Received: from 65.207.213.226 ([65.207.213.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:54:49 +0200 Received: from mwoehlke by 65.207.213.226 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:54:49 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <44D27B36.1090400@andrew.cmu.edu> <20060804090559.GD8152@calimero.vinschen.de> <44D3963B.6090107@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00099.txt.bz2 Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Adam Wolbach wrote: > >>> http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format >>> >>> The first match >>> >>> http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf >>> >>> is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the >>> shortcut stuff. >> Thanks, this gets me more than halfway to what I need to know -- the >> missing piece is how these fields need to be filled out to appear as a >> symbolic link to cygwin. Worst case I can just hunt through the cygwin >> source, but if you happen to know or have notes lying around somewhere, >> it might be useful to more than just us to post them somewhere. Thanks >> again. > > Your best source of information is probably symlink_worker() in > . > HTH, > Igor Ah, yes, the RTFSC I saw coming a mile away. ;-) ...but it's a very helpful pointer to a specific place (and being a link makes it easy to read; no mucking with downloading files or whatnot). I hope Adam will appreciate your thoughtfulness. :-) -- Matthew Only Joe suffers from schizophrenia. The rest of us enjoy it.