Windows 2000 Junction Points

2001-12-06 Thread Kim, Anthony
Windows 2000 (having NTFS 5.0) allows the creation of directory symbolic links. This can be used as mount points for hard drive volumes or to symlink directories across file systems. In the literature, the directory links are called junction points. Disk Administration snap-in can be used to

Re: Windows 2000 Junction Points

2001-12-06 Thread Gerald Villemure
2000 Junction Points Windows 2000 (having NTFS 5.0) allows the creation of directory symbolic links. This can be used as mount points for hard drive volumes or to symlink directories across file systems. In the literature, the directory links are called junction points. Disk Administration

Re: Windows 2000 Junction Points

2001-12-06 Thread Kim, Anthony
06, 2001 4:52 PM Subject: Windows 2000 Junction Points Windows 2000 (having NTFS 5.0) allows the creation of directory symbolic links. This can be used as mount points for hard drive volumes or to symlink directories across file systems. In the literature, the directory links are called

RE: Windows 2000 Junction Points

2001-12-06 Thread Roth, Kevin P.
My take on this: ln -s /source /destination should create symbolic links; the closest approximation in the NT world is either subst.exe (not quite the same, really more like `mount` for DOS) or a .LNK file (which, as you've noticed, doesn't do anything for you from a cmd.exe command line,

Re: Windows 2000 Junction Points

2001-12-06 Thread Kim, Anthony
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:36:01AM -0600, Kim, Anthony wrote: But I mean to say, wouldn't it be nice and consistent if ln -s dir link worked like linkd as opposed to creating a shortcut. I am aware of mount under cygwin but the mount is not

Re: Windows 2000 Junction Points

2001-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:43:17PM -0600, Kim, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:36:01AM -0600, Kim, Anthony wrote: But I mean to say, wouldn't it be nice and consistent if ln -s dir link worked like linkd as opposed to creating a