Gonzalo Garramuño wrote:
> Greg Ercolano wrote:
>> To make eg. a directory symlink in Vista from DOS:
>>
>> MKLINK /D \foo \\some\server\path
>>
>> This is really useful for the film industry.. it means we can /finally/
>> use regular pathnames, and redirect paths to different servers.
>> I just verified it today on Business Edition.
>>
>> Working symlinks in windows? Hell hath frozen over.
>
> To resucitate this old thread. I just found out that... no. Not real
> symlinks. They are still a joke.
Thanks for that list.
Well, Microsoft never gets anything right, so after seeing your list
my confidence has at least been restored on that count.
I wasn't expecting unix symlinks, but at least we can make
symlinks to file servers.
Some of those limitations you list show how bad the implementation
is, though. Or maybe SCO is scaring them with patents on symlinks ;)
A few things they /did/ get right, or rather, chose not to get wrong:
o You can point symlinks to UNC paths, and chdir to them,
and DOS won't complain. (Before, you could only cd to
a remote drive if it was a drive map, or if you had the registry
tweak that enables DOS to allow cd'ing to UNCs)
o 'dir' listings will show symlinks in a format such that you can
actually tell it's a link, and what it's pointing to.
(Hey, they could have screwed that up)
o You can remove dir symlinks with rmdir (don't use del)
o Recursive links seems to be handled reasonably in the few
tests I've done (below)
A thread formed over here which has some other mklink details:
http://seriss.com/cgi-bin/rush/newsgroup-threaded.cgi?-viewthread+1553+1554+1555+1556+1557+1566
I'll try to add your info to that thread at some point.
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