From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: windows explorer links in cygwin /bin
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:18:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a3afba8-6dbf-5c37-8f47-c30e29ab57b2@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6148582D.4070908@tlinx.org>
On 9/20/2021 5:45 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
> I have about 99 ".lnk" files in my /bin dir.
>
> What are these for?
They are shortcut style symlinks. See
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
> Console2 a2ping a5toa4 adhocfilelist
> amstex arara arlatex authorindex
> bibexport bundledoc cachepic chkweb
> cron_diagnose.sh ctanify ctanupload de-macro
> dtxgen dviasm dvigif dvilj6
Most of these come from TeX Live. I tried searching for some of the others
(such as Console2) at
https://cygwin.com/packages/
and they are not in the current Cygwin distro. I don't know why you still have
them.
> So why are these in the /bin directory since they don't
> work on the command line (like in BASH).
Cygwin should recognize them as symlinks.
> So why would ".lnk" files be used in cygwin packages since they don't
> work under cygwin, but are 'explorer' links.
What happens if you type 'amstex --help' in a Cygwin shell?
Ken
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-20 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-20 9:45 L A Walsh
2021-09-20 11:18 ` Ken Brown [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3a3afba8-6dbf-5c37-8f47-c30e29ab57b2@cornell.edu \
--to=kbrown@cornell.edu \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).