Symbolic links and volume mounting à la Unix exist in MS-Win. Could mounting a volume (grafting the root folder of a local volume) be useful?
Mountvol.exe is in my Win-XP. See: XP help: mountvol http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363878(VS.85).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524 ~ Gilles ---------- Original Message ----------- From: bill lam <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:05:44 +0800 Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Projects on USB drives WAS: Project Files > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Sherlock Ric wrote: > > Would installing J on the USB drive too so that it is always in the > > same place relative to the code folders help solve some of the > > problems? > > No, user defined folders in windows are expected to specify to entire > path including drive letter. Files can be specified relative to these > folders. I faced the same problem and probably use similar kludge as > Henry. To be fair, drive letters should be a problem of window file > system itself. >... ------- End of Original Message ------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
