[petsc-dev] damn symlinks on windows

[Chetan Jhurani]

mklink on NTFS does it the right way - no .lnk business
or cygwin specific file format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link


> -----Original Message-----
> From: petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Satish Balay
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 8:53 PM
> To: Barry Smith
> Cc: For users of the development version of PETSc
> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] damn symlinks on windows
> 
> 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