On 2005-08-05 14:09, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> New discovery about ISO file systems (today): you can burn symlinks to
> DVD, and they'll work under FreeBSD and Linux.  They fail under
> Microsoft.

AFAIK, that only works if the image uses the "Rock-Ridge extensions".

Microsoft operating systems have supported "shortcuts" for many years
now, but they still can't do anything useful with the RR extensions of
CD-ROM disks they mount (i.e. convert the symlinks to "fake shortcuts"
or something equally useful for the end user).

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