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5 Sep 2024 21:27:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: An annoying thing in Windows (which mostly doesn't happen in Linux)  
From: Darren New
Date: 22 Sep 2009 13:28:34
Message: <4ab90942$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
>   I can't find any way of creating such a soft link in Windows XP. If I could,
> I would have used that solution a long time ago.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

If you don't like sysinternals, you can use MS's tool:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524

It helps if you know Windows calls the "junctions".

You might want to be aware of the caveats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
They act more like hard links than soft links in some ways.


Hope that helps! :-)

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


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