The short answer: No.
The long answer:
1)No. Because:
Windoze does not have any concept of symlinks. The binaries call things
from hard-coded places. This is also the reason that you can't just move
a binary from one directory to another. It just isn't a part of the file
system spec.
2) Yes. Sort of. What you would have to do is go into the registry and
hack out the application entries to reflect the new position of the
file.
Kenny
PS Sorry for the non-Linux nature of the answer ;-)
"Karl J. Runge" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was visiting my father-in-law over the holidays and, as usual, I wound up
> fixing things on his Win95 computer.
>
> He has a space problem on his 2GB C: drive and we traced it down to a
> huge amount of "clip art" in one application. He uses that application
> a lot and has customized it considerably. Because of the customization he is
> reluctant to reinstall the app on another partition with a lot of space.
>
> My question is can I use the Windoze "short cut" (or something else)
> like a Unix symbolic link? Surprisingly there is one huge 400MB file in
> that clipart directory. If I could just move that one file to a
> different partition (he has a 2nd HD of about 20GB), and symlink the
> reference to it that would be pretty useful.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl
>
> PS: sorry for the non-linux aspect of this question.
>
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