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Re: Symbolic Links

On Dec 15 21:58, Elliott Wilcoxon wrote:
> NTFS also supports hard links, and there's a program that comes with 
> Windows that lets you make them (searching WinXP Pro's Help and Support 
> Center for 'hardlink' gives the relevant entries).  The result would 
> then be that it would work in both Cygwin and Windows (all programs), 
> although it can be confusing if you're not used to thinking of file 
> system-y stuff.

Hardlinks don't work for directories, only for files.

Corinna

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