On 27/6/11 8:12, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Some of these features have been added only after W2K, as Mark
annotated. It may be for compatibility reasons, or not-updated Explorer
behaviour, when links and shortcuts still are stored in the old-fashion way.
The tipping point is Vista, not XP afaik.
XP (NTFS 5.0 and higher) does support Junctions (a folder-only type of
symlink). However they are unuseable on XP (unless you install a shell
extension), because XP's Explorer does not handle them correctly. So few
XP users are aware of Junction functionality.
Vista and Win7 have native Explorer support for Junctions as well as
true POSIX-like symlink behaviour for files as well as folders. Though
GUI access needs a shell extension, there is the command-line utility
mklink, which confusingly (why does M$ do this?) has Source and Target
parameters the opposite way round from what Linux experience leads you
to expect.
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