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#1 2005-10-31 20:38:38

Gullible Jones
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Registered: 2004-12-29
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MS to implement symlinks

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

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#2 2005-10-31 20:56:04

ozar
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From: USA
Registered: 2005-02-18
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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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#3 2005-11-01 00:02:16

deficite
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From: Augusta, GA
Registered: 2005-06-02
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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.

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#4 2005-11-01 00:39:44

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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#5 2005-11-01 01:04:26

awalk
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From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: 2005-02-14
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Re: MS to implement symlinks

Dusty wrote:

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.

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