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SubjectRE: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links
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Right, but they are referring to the
multiple-copies-of-nt-for-installation-on-an-install-server case -- this
isn't something that would be used on a regular workstation. Or did I
misinterpret your last answer?

-mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Spong [mailto:spong@glue.umd.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 4:18 PM
> To: Michael Nelson
> Cc: linux-kernel; Burton Windle; Robert L. Harris; Anton Ivanov
> Subject: RE: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links
>
>
> > Huh? What file duplication?
>
> User settings, DLLs, all kinds of stuff. On the web page (I
> think, it may
> have been somewhere else), Microsoft estimates an 80-90%
> increase in HD
> space when using this.
>
> Matt

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