Andrew McGlashan <[email protected]> wrote:
 
> Copy file from arbitrary location to the VirtualStore directory, now you
> can access that file from anywhere you like ... sort of like a PATH
> environment for *any* file ... but it only works for 32 bit programs.
> 
> Here's an example:
> 
> C:\>copy C:\Users\andrewm\Downloads\test-fax000041829.pdf
> \Users\andrewm\AppData\local\VirtualStore\
>         1 file(s) copied.
> 
> C:\>vim test-fax000041829.pdf
> 
> C:\>dir test-fax000041829.pdf
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 88E2-2CCE
> 
>  Directory of C:\
> 
> File Not Found
> 
> C:\>
> 
> 
> 
> The vim worked on the file, even though it wasn't located at:
>  c:\test-fax000041829.pdf

that's weird behaviour indeed.

The above output reminds me so much of MS-DOS.

Apparently though, Microsoft now have a new shell - windows PowerShell - which
is said to compete with Linux and UNIX command line interfaces.

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