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

[sreangsu acharyya]

> 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.

thanks biju,
  and so suppose there's a fat file system mounted from linux, the
*explorer specific shortcuts* should not work from linux. Seems a valid
argument...have to check on this while i boot into linux on my office box.

sreangsu


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