Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> writes: > On 2010-02-22, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote: >> 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? >> >> Symbolic links are designed to aid in migration and application >> compatibility with UNIX operating systems. Microsoft has implemented >> its symbolic links to function just like UNIX links. > > So symbolic links on W7 function like Unix (hard) links > rather than Unix _symbolic_ links??
Which leads you to this conclusion? According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365006(VS.85).aspx There are three types of file links supported in the NTFS file system: hard links, junctions, and symbolic links. This topic is an overview of hard links and junctions. For information about symbolic links, see Creating Symbolic Links. Creating Symbolic Links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363878(VS.85).aspx -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
