Warp wrote:
>   (Yes, Darren, I know NTFS supports soft links. However, Windows XP doesn't,
> no matter how much you claim it does.)

It does for directories. It just doesn't have soft links to individual 
files. :-)

And that just supports my contention that the only good reason for soft 
links is to fix broken programs that shouldn't have been hard-coding 
addresses to start with.

(Actually, the one other common use, making libxyz.2.8.so point to libxyz.so 
is a pretty good one, since that would seem to be a lot of mechanism in the 
loader you can easily bypass with soft links, hard links, or copying the 
files, each of which has its own problems.)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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