Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:12:10 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: Fw: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links |
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Stuart MacDonald wrote: >From: "Mark Hahn" <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> >> it's just a content-addressable filestore. nothing new, and definitely >> unrelated to symlinks. the point is to uniquify files, almost certainly > >Anyone want to impart clue? I'm under the impression that symlinks >and shortcuts are the same thing; hardlinks and shortcuts are >different.
No, shortcuts are files "explorer" understands. Symlinks are an integrated part of the filesystem. NTFS already has hardlink support.
What M$ has created is not "symlinks". (It's the people reading that document and thinking "symlink" who needs clue implantation.)
--Ricky
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