[darcs-users] Re: cache-name-proposal

[Max Battcher]

David Roundy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:30:07PM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:
> 
>>David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:
>>
>>
>>>>Or inserts a symlink current -> pristine?
>>
>>>I thought about that, but I don't think that current darcs will follow
>>>symlinks... I'm not sure about this.  If that works, it would definitely be
>>>the cleanest solution for a transition.
>>
>>Seems to work for me, darcs v1.0.0rc2.  (Only tested with 'darcs
>>whatsnew', slightly more encompassing testing is probably a good idea
>>:-) 
> 
> 
> If whatsnew works, then everything else should.  But if we do this
> transition, it *will* leave windows users without the same clean
> transition, unless someone figures out how to create windows shortcuts.

Here's a page I found with a few methods to create windows shortcuts 
from the command line:

http://www.ss64.com/nt/shortcut.html

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