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    One of the features I miss in Windows is the ability to create symbolic links to files/dirs like in Unix based OSs.

    I think to know that NTFS has support built in for these symlinks but I don't know how to create them.

    Is there any application able to do this in Win2k?

    cheers, Ivan
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    • #3
      i have found this free utility (includes source code also) and have used it for some time without problems.

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      • #4
        Okay I may have had too much cider, the backs stopped hurting but why would you want to do this anyway???
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        • #5
          PIT, I have like ten db driven web sites, a compression library, an image loading library and a computer game under development.
          For the websites I almost always use some base PHP classes, if I have them in a centralized folder I can just put a symlink to it on the site folder. Now, if I upgrade the library in that folder it'll be automatically upgraded for all my web sites
          For general programming I use a command line compiler so having to type long paths is not something I like to do. I should install 4DOS or 4NT though.

          thanks for the links Agallag and Tonny.

          btw does someone know of an utility that makes symlinks of files too?

          ivan
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          • #6
            Originally posted by drslump
            PIT, I have like ten db driven web sites, a compression library, an image loading library and a computer game under development.
            For the websites I almost always use some base PHP classes, if I have them in a centralized folder I can just put a symlink to it on the site folder. Now, if I upgrade the library in that folder it'll be automatically upgraded for all my web sites
            For general programming I use a command line compiler so having to type long paths is not something I like to do. I should install 4DOS or 4NT though.

            thanks for the links Agallag and Tonny.

            btw does someone know of an utility that makes symlinks of files too?

            ivan
            Okay doke now I see why. I was just curious.
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            • #7
              I haven't tried it, but I think the one I linked to does files too.
              Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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              • #8
                it doesn't Agallag but it works like a charm for dirs that is what I most need. thanks again for the link

                it's not supported internally by NTFS so it'll need a more complex program to do it.

                ivan
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                • #9
                  Well no NTFS supports it... but Windows doesn't support MAKING them natively.

                  Or did you mean that NTFS doesn't support symlinks for FILES, which I'd believe?

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                  • #10
                    Gurm, NTFS doesn't support symlinks to files.
                    me and my engrish

                    btw M$ have tools for making this symlinks but they come with the Win2k Resource Kit which is not free and do not come with the OS

                    ciao, Ivan
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