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Re: Symbolic links


I'm surprised to see there is no obvious answer to this in the
FAQ.  I'll try to add something.

David

On Thursday 27 Jul 00, Corinna Vinschen writes:
> Mathis Severin wrote:
> > 
> > Hello
> > 
> > Environment: cygwin 1.1.2 on NT 4.0
> > 
> > I created a symbolic link to a file (ln -s /someDir/someFile someFile).
> > Now I would like to open this file using for example notepad
> > (notepad someFile). Instead of opening the file someFile, the file
> > containing the link description is displayed in notepad. Is this the
> > expected behaviour? Can this be changed by some settings?
> > 
> > A similar behaviour I get when trying to open a file on a mounted
> > directory. For example trying to open the file /someFile
> > (notepad /someFile), where / is mounted to c:\cygnus. This gives the
> > error: 'Cannot open the /someFile file'.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> 
> Neither symbolic links nor mount points created with Cygwin are
> transparent to native Windows applications. Better use a Cygwin
> compiled vim or similar...
> 
> Corinna
> 
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