On 31 Oct 08, at 17:49, Marc Santhoff wrote: Hi,
> is there any function or set of functions for handling symbolic links > inside the file system at an os independant level in fpcs libraries? > > Unix-like systems have soft symlinks (Linux, FreeBSD), Windows has .lnk > files upt to XP and AFAIR Windows Vista has some other stuff I don't > know about yet. . . .lnk files under Windows don't really work as symlinks and thus wouldn't be supported at the RTL level (they aren't directly treated like that by the Windows API level AFAIK, they're only handled by the Windows GUI). NTFS links (available since Win2k IIRC) are another story, those are much closer to the Unix symbolic link concept. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
