Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:30:25 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | 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.
Shortcuts are not symlinks, so much as that they *contain* symlinks. A shortcut is a blob of shell metadata that tells Explorer how to run the thing it points at, as well as where to find it. The closest analogue in Unix would be a wrapper shellscript that sets up the environment and runs an app. with switches supplied.
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!" -- Marvin Martian, 01/01/2000 00:00:00
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