RE: symbolic links - toasters

30 Jul 2004


      I tried the CYGWIN route.  An "ln -s test data" creates a file (seen in
DOS windows) that is called data.lnk.  CYGWIN in an "ls" command shows
it as a symbolic link (data->test).  However, if I copy the symbolic
link in a DOS window, the new file is a copy of the link, not the data
from the file that is linked to.  If I copy the file in a CYGWIN, the
contents of the linked file is copies (so CYGWIN translates it
appropriately).  And if I name the file something other than "file.lnk"
(e.g. file.dat) in a DOS window, it is no longer a symbolic link.
Tim Sesow
VP Engineering
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry [mailto:juanino@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 2:31 PM
To: Timothy Sesow; Mike Langas; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: symbolic links
I wonder if you use cygwin if it would support making
a symbolic link via the normal "ln" method.  How about
microsoft's unix services for windows???
--- Timothy Sesow tsesow@nsllc.com wrote:
...
From my investigations, Windows doesn't seem to have
symbolic links.
The "shortcuts" that you see on a Windows desktop
doesn't resolve at the CreateFile
level (operating system call), so it is only handled
by Explorer (which is an application, not 
the operating system).  I have not been able to find
a CIFS method
of creating a symbolic link (and I have looked
repeatedly).
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Mike
Langas
Sent: Fri 7/30/2004 1:11 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: symbolic links
My company tried to save some money by getting a
Netapp without the NFS license
because we will not be using it with Unix.  The
problem is we need to use a few
symbolic links.  It seems that the only way to
create them is via a NFS mount. 
Does anyone know a way around this?
Thanks,
Mike Langas
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