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Re: how to check in a symlink?

From: John Peacock <jpeacock_at_rowman.com>
Date: 2004-04-05 21:22:50 CEST

Brian Mathis wrote:

> Windows NTFS does support *hard links*, which give almost identical
> functionality as symlinks (and exactly identical functionality to unix
> hard links).

And the same limitation as hard links (i.e. must be on the same NTFS
filesystem). They are also somewhat confusing in that the file properties
(size, etc) don't change in the hardlink if the original file was used to make
the change.

John

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