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Re: base-files-mketc.sh


At 12:29 PM 2/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> What else do you think of?
>
>Hmm, I'm not sure.  You may be right for the moment (on a new install, in
>any case).  However, any postinstall script using the `cygpath -u ...`
>syntax would have that problem, and who can guarantee that no others will
>be added in the future?

Igor,

I don't understand your cygpath -u comment. It seems to behave correctly
no matter what I do.

>If I understand the (new style) symlink implementation correctly, both the
>POSIX path and the Windows path are needed in the corresponding shortcut.

I haven't looked into the implementation but doing ln -s 'c:\windows' win
works perfectly fine for me. Dos dir shows a win.lnk,
ls -l win shows the Windows path. 
Do you notice a problem when you try?

Pierre


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