[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Richard Heck wrote: > >> Andre Poenitz wrote: >>> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:09:50PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: >>> >>>> Is it safe to use the create_symlink function from boost::filesystems? >>>> Are there platforms on which we want LyX to run that don't handle >>>> symlinks? >>>> >>> You mean Windows? >>> >> Except Vista, as I've learned. I had thought Windows did do symlinks but >> not hard links, but apparently only by cheating. > Windows can do something similar to symlinks, but only linking to a > directory - not to a file. Some special software is needed to create > these from the command line. > > I don't remember what these are called at the moment, but if you're > interested I can find out. No, it's not that big a deal, and the approach to the export issues that used this idea died, anyway. But thanks.
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