[LINK] Microsoft is dead

Tue Apr 10 10:32:45 AEST 2007

On 4/10/07, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:

> Unfortunately such links are not available in Windows* ...
>...
> *IIRC, there is a hairbrained scheme inside newer version of Windows
> to do symlinking; I read somethiing about it a while back and it looked
> real strange to my Unix brain :) and no, "shortcuts" on the Desktop
> do not accomplish the same function.

Wikipedia is your friend:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link>

It seems vista has grown symlinks..

-andyf