Simen Kjaeraas wrote: > Daniel Keep wrote: > >> WinXP doesn't support symbolic links. > > This is not true. NTFS 5.0+ (Windows 2000+) has support for symbolic > links, they're just not readily available to the average user. They > are known as 'junction points' or 'reparse points'. > > There are certain gotchas, and Explorer has no idea how to handle > them intelligently, but they exist and they work. > > More here: http://www.shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284 > > -- > Simen
You can't claim it supports them when the shell itself cannot create them, nor distinguish them from regular folders in any way. That's like saying that D supports returning the overflow flag from addition because it has inline assembler. Besides which, links in Windows tend to be horribly restrictive and/or dangerous, often both. I mean, look under "Deleting Symlinks With Normal Windows Filesystem Tools Is Not Only Dangerous But Also Bizarre" in the linked article. -- Daniel
