From: "dhruva" <seagull@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs/lispref/Makefile.in: Minor fix for MS Win port
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:18:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030822114810.C488278679@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F45DE8E.6070709@gnu.org>
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:12:46 +0100, "Jason Rumney" <jasonr@gnu.org> said:
> > If it finds 'ln', it uses it and created a symbolic link to the original
> > file BUT with a ".lnk" extension.
>
> That is correct for Cygwin I think. Does renaming the file actually
> work? Because Windows shortcuts (the equivalent of symbolic links) use
> the file extension to identify themselves, I think renaming it would
> prevent the shortcut from being recognised as such.
[dky]file --version
file-3.41
magic file from d:/MinGW32/share/magic
[dky]file index.texi
index.texi: ms-Windows shortcut
It does recognise the link after renaming as a shortcut even without the
'.lnk' extension.
with regards,
dhruva
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Dhruva Krishnamurthy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-22 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-20 4:32 emacs/lispref/Makefile.in: Minor fix for MS Win port dhruva
2003-08-22 9:12 ` Jason Rumney
2003-08-22 11:48 ` dhruva [this message]
2003-08-22 16:39 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
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2003-08-20 8:05 dhruva
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