I think that's right -- it only works on NTFS systems. This page refers to it as an NTFS symbolic link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
On Nov 14, 2007 10:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/11/2007 7:44 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2007 4:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Unix-alikes, the workaround is to build soft links to all the > >> packages in a standard location; but soft links don't work on Windows > >> (and we don't want to get into the almost-undocumented hard links that > >> exist on some Windows file systems). > > > > Symbolic links are available on Windows Vista: > > Does this work on FAT file systems, e.g. on a USB drive? It used to be > that they only worked on NTFS. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > > C:\> mklink /? > > Creates a symbolic link. > > > > MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target > > > > /D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file > > symbolic link. > > /H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link. > > /J Creates a Directory Junction. > > Link specifies the new symbolic link name. > > Target specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link > > refers to. > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
