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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

MS to implement symlinks

Really, it's about bloody time. I mean, how long have these things been around?!

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: MS to implement symlinks

Picking up ideas from others is what MS has always done best.  Too bad it took them so long to latch onto this one.

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deficite

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From: Augusta, GA

Registered: 2005-06-02

Posts: 693

Re: MS to implement symlinks

I remember looking for a way to do symlinks in XP and read how MS thought that their "new" hard links were so cool. Man, so cool that it was a seperate download and so cool that you had to google for it and read an article just to figure out how to use it. Plus there were a ton of disadvantages to them.

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: MS to implement symlinks

Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it. Poorly." Corey.

Seriously though, what are Windows shortcuts if not symlinks?

Dusty

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awalk

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From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2005-02-14

Posts: 40

Re: MS to implement symlinks

Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it. Poorly." Corey.

Seriously though, what are Windows shortcuts if not symlinks?

Dusty

They're just text files interpreted by Explorer (well, I guess it's Explorer that does it...). Symlinks may be followed by other programs, just like a normal file/directory.

Not sure how Gnome works, but under KDE, if you create a "link to application" on the desktop, then in ~/Desktop a text file will appear with the relevant details. This is comparable to a Windows shortcut.