Re: [boost] [filesystem] create_symlink() support for Windows Vista?

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-02 21:58:30

At 06:30 2005-11-02, Martin Slater wrote:
> > I think links are an incredibly useful tool Unix and I sorely 
> miss them when I
> > use Windows...so I actually think this feature will get used extensively --
> > well at least by me ;-)
> >
> > Jeff
>
>
>Made my day a few weeks ago finding out you can do symlinks on windows,
>check out http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html. Extremely
>useful (and theres code as well so its possible this could be used for
>any Windows OS with NTFS not just Vista).

I've mentioned this many times in the past and have been "assured" 
that they really aren't "symlinks".
Since I've used *nix about a total of 3 hours in my 4 decade career, 
I had to take people at their word.

>Martin
>
>
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