On 12/02/2010 11:10, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Yigal Chripun"<yigal...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On 12/02/2010 03:36, Daniel Keep wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Yigal Chripun"<yigal...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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.
If you run it through google translater, and (attempt to) read through the
"Symbolic misconception that Windows NT/2000/XP is available in" section, it
sounds like he saying that pre-vista could only do hardlinks and junctions
but that some people (maybe the author?) had been inaccurately calling them
"symlinks" anyway, thus causing confusion. But of course, that's assuming
that the translation is accurate and that I'm actually interpreting the
translation correctly.
I can't say that I fully understand what that page says, but it seems
that this utility does provide for some sort of symlinks for files.
Anyway, I'm not that interested in support for a decade old and
deprecated OS - I've upgraded long time ago and currently use both Vista
and Win7. I'll be upgrading my Vista to Win7 as soon as I get some free
time.
My 4 y/o laptop that I already upgraded runs faster with Win7 compared
to XP tablet edition it had before.
