Gib Bogle <g.bo...@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz> writes: > MRAB wrote: >> W. eWatson wrote: >>> Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It >>> inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it >>> gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, >>> and fired up the program in B. Win7 went into search mode for the >>> file. I looked at properties for the B program, and it was clearly >>> pointing to folder A. >>> >> Sounds like you didn't copy it but made a shortcut to it instead. > > Windows 7 has symbolic links?
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