Re: Strange error importing projects

On Dec 13, 2007 6:53 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com> wrote:
> FYI: Subversion doesn't support symbolic links on win32 because these links
> are not implemented by the OS' filesystem level but rather they are normal
> files (.lnk) that are only interpreted differently by the MS Windows Explorer
> and some related tools. Many other programs also don't support those,
> including e.g. the OS itself, which you will find if you ever try to make a
> symlink to a DLL work. ;|

LNK files are NOT symlinks. Not even close. They don't serve the same
purpose and do far more than act as a pointer to a file. Please don't
confuse the issue by stating that Windows uses LNK files to implement
symlinks.

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Received on Thu Dec 13 13:18:00 2007