Sven Barth schrieb:
On 26.06.2011 13:50, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:
Does Windows still support commands like "subst" and "join"?
A friend uses SUBST e.g. for his own libraries, and he cannot use
FPC/Lazarus because these are unable to find his files in e.g. X:\.
Why can't he use that? SUBST uses the same mechanism that is used for
e.g. C:\ so all folders that are mapped using SUBST (or its underlying
API) are accessible the same way from the Windows API as "normal" drives
are.
AFAIR FPC/RTL could not find files in a root directory, e.g.
X:\myfile.pas. This may be due to the missing ".." entry in "normal"
drive root directories.
Alternatively I believe that it does now have an equivalent of
symlinks for directories.
NT is POSIX compatible, at least with regards to files and inodes.
Symlinks exist since the introduction of desktop shortcuts/icons and the
Windows Explorer, in all file systems. The implementation (of symlinks
and SUBST) may vary, though, depending on the concrete filesystem.
But shortcuts aren't the same as symlinks. Shortcuts are normal files
and they can be opened like that using e.g. OpenFile while you need to
use special APIs to work on symlinks.
Maybe, but when I "open" an shortcut to an folder, I get the folder
contents, and its "properties" are the folder properties. Files may have
different shortcuts/symlinks, but these can be replaced by hard links,
in many cases (NTFS...).
DoDi
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