On 12/02/2010 03:36, Daniel Keep wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Yigal Chripun"<yigal...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:hl204m$m8...@digitalmars.com...
Starting with Vista, MS exposed the ability to have symlinks and hardlinks
on windows, just run "help mklink" in a cmd.exe.
In reality NTFS supported this for a long time now (IIRC, since circa
2000) but the problem is that the windows shell/cmd.exe is always late at
providing access to new NTFS features - they're always late by at least
one version of windows so this is why you can't do that on XP even though
the NTFS version that comes with XP does support it.
Oh, so at least in theory, symlinks should still be possible on 2k/XP given
a third-party tool to manage them and avoidance of using them on the
command-line and in batch files?
Given that SysInternals had a tool for doing hard links on 2000+, but no
tool for doing symlinks, I doubt it.
I recall reading something about how symlinks were new to Vista
specifically; not simply a tool to make them, but something changed in
NTFS or the system's support for it.
http://homepage1.nifty.com/emk/symlink.html
I think this provides the ability to have symlinks on windows XP. I'm
not 100% sure since it's in Japanese.
