Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality

[John Paulson <munch at powertv dot com>]

   I like the proposal to unify Windows and Cygwin symlinks.  However, one
minor problem can occur: under *nix I can have files with the extension
.lnk, with no special semantics associated with it.  I can tar up a directory
containing .lnk files on my *nix box and untar them on my cygwin box.  What
happens to those files with the .lnk extension?  I think this will be another
bit of Windows-vs-the-world festivity (as occurred with one source tarball
recently which had a directory named "AUX").

   Even with that potential hassle, unification is the correct choice.


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