Re: [OT] Re: [LIH] soft links not working on a fat partition

[Biju Chacko]

At 11:17 AM 13/12/00 +0530, sreangsu acharyya wrote:
>and in that context what are those windows shortcuts ? they do have a
>softlink kind of a function, or so it seems.


Windows shortcuts are a not a feature of the filesystem. They are datafiles 
created by the shell (Explorer). So they are not analogous to softlinks.

Think in terms of links that can be manipulated by bash, but not by tcsh or 
pdksh.

Biju


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