On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:38:35 +0300, Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote:
"Vladimir Panteleev" <thecybersha...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:op.uv86plz3m02...@cybershadow...
Some libraries are packaged with documentation, examples, etc. with the
actual source in a subdirectory. On my system I resolve this with a
"packages" directory (containing library packages with the directory
structure intact) and an "import" directory, which contains symlinks to
the libraries' source directories. We can't do this since some users
still
use FAT32.
Do you mean to imply NTFS can do this? How? Possible on Win, too? I'm a
big
Windows guy, but symlinks are one of the things I really miss from the
times
I've used Unix.
NTFS supports 'junction points' which allow you to create something like
directory symlinks that point to other local drives or directories. The
NTFS version introduced in Windows Vista has, additionally, "real"
symlinks, in that you can use them to link to files or directories on
network drives.
This is one feature that hasn't much of a standard UI implementation.
Versions before Vista didn't even have a standard command-line tool to
create them, users had to use 3rd-party software. Vista and newer have a
"mklink" command. Personally I use the excellent, now-open-source FAR
manager [1], which had the ability to create various NTFS links for a long
time now.
[1] http://www.farmanager.com/opensource.php
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Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:thecybersha...@gmail.com
