https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37551
--- Comment #3 from Heinz Repp <heinz.r...@arcor.de> 2012-07-09 20:00:49 UTC --- Just stumbled over this bug, I think it needs clarification. There is some kind of misconception around concerning links in Windows. In Unix based systems we have hard links (every directory entry is one) and soft links (transparent to applications, as application really see the linked file or folder. Windows has both kinds of links too, or to be exact, NTFS. But they are little known, and seldom used (except for Microsoft, who makes heavy use of it). Hardlinks are only possible within the same file system (as in every other OS) and only for files, not for directories. In contrast, soft links are only for directories and can span different file systems. They are known as junctions or reparse point. What Windows users usually know are shortcuts, files with the invisible .lnk extension. Those are neither soft nor hard links but hints for the Explorer (and only for this program) which directory or file should be opened. They are not even transparent for the Explorer itself, as shortcuts to directories are not shown in tree view. Apart from the Explorer, shortcuts are meaningless. And by the way: file open dialogs are in reality Explorer calls in most programs, so they can handle shortcuts. So what do you mean when you say you created an "anchor"? Did you create a reparse point and it did not work? Or did you just create a shortcut and wondered, that no program except Explorer handles it? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list Libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
