[petsc-dev] damn symlinks on windows

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>   Is there any solution to the problem of windows users always mailing symlinks instead of actual files? Is it a cygwin problem?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#using-shortcuts

I guess one can create MS-links - but 'less configure.log.lnk' is
useless on it . And I don't know if any of these e-mailers would
resolve MS-link and attach the actual file - or just attach the dummy
link file..

Alterantives:

- do not create links on windows. [but now our instructions are either inconsistant or too complicated]

- do not use links anywhere :(

Satish