On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Alex Esplin <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 13:18, Alberto Treviño <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Thursday 26 November 2009 04:53:42 pm Aaron Toponce wrote:
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>>> Welcome to the '70s, Windows! Oh, we're 40 years past? My bad.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, NTFS is posix compliant, which means it supports hard and soft
>> links.  The first support was with Windows NT IIRC, and Windows 2000 had a
>> utility you could download to create hard links.
>>
>
> 30 years behind is marginally better.
>
> One of my main problems with Windows is it's helplessness without being
> paired with multiple such "utilities you can download", many of which are of
> dubious quality.
>
> I have never had luck with them or junctions either. It kinda works, but
nothing I'll use in a critical situation. I love symlinks in Linux.

Robert LeBlanc
Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
Brigham Young University
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