Hello Tom,
If you're using Windows 2000 it has junction points. It's almost the
same as symbolic links in UNIX. Except it works only for directories.
Try to find access to Windows 2000 Resource Kit, there should be a
utility called linkd.exe. If you running NT 4.0, you can try to apply
Service Pack 6(a) (it should give you NTFS 5.0 support), and try run
linkd.exe. I haven't tried so, and Microsoft says that junction points
is only available under Windows 2000 platform.
Have a good time,
Andrey Nepomnyaschih
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 1:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Symbolic Links under Windows
>
>
> I am trying to move my database (the directory) to another
> location, but
> the symbolic link option described in the documentation
> isn't working for
> me. I'm using the binary distribution of version 3.23.37.
>
> I created a text file in the c:\mysql\data directory,
> called mydb.sym, with
> the string c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\database\mydb in it,
> and moved the
> directory to that location. No good. I even stopped and
> restarted the mysql
> service (I'm running on NT), but it still didn't work.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
>
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