POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Context switching : Re: Context switching Server Time
4 Sep 2024 21:24:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Context switching  
From: Warp
Date: 21 Apr 2010 16:47:33
Message: <4bcf6465@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Just as an example, I
> have never seen a soft link used in Windows, or seen the need for a soft 
> link other than to fix broken programs that hard-coded file names that they 
> were supposed to be pulling out of the environment. People don't use soft 
> links to point to the right location - they use configuration variables.

  Well, duh. People don't use soft links because Windows doesn't support
them. Seems plainly obvious.

  I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be writing that if Windows had full support
for soft links from day one to this day.

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                                                          - Warp


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