Problem with Windows .lnk files treated as Symlinks

Thu May 3 10:46:00 GMT 2001

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:48:05AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>2.) If CYGWIN=nowinsymlinks is set, not only symbolic link
>> creation but also symbolic link interpretation should
>> be "classical", i.e. *.lnk files are treated as files.
>>This may be indicative of a bug.

This isn't a bug. The setting is only to force creation of old style symlinks.
Either style is supposed to be recognized on "reading". I suppose the option
could have been "nocreatewinsymlinks"...
cgf
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