Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18 | From | Nicholas Miell <> | Date | 09 Jun 2002 14:30:45 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 13:40, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Diego Calleja wrote: > > I agree. M$ did .lnk _files_, but really, there's not symlinks in vfat > > world. Even msdos doesn't recognize them. I don't remember if it's the > > same in NTFS, W2000 & XP are so good that I can't work with them in 32MB > > RAM... > > Some time ago I found a document proposing a different API for Windows > 2002 which was supposed to include symlinks into ntfs, so I don't think > it was there. >
NTFS is a real filesystem, unlike VFAT. It has native support for hard links, and, IIRC, the version that ships with Windows XP can do something similar to symbolic links.
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