Re: Windows and My Documents

2010-06-04 Thread Tim Golden
On 03/06/2010 17:50, Bob Greschke wrote: On 2010-06-03 09:57:11 -0600, Tim Golden said: On 03/06/2010 16:39, Bob Greschke wrote: How do I do a "listdir" (or whatever I need to use) of the Desktop on a Windows machine and have "folders" like My Documents show up in the result? I'm specificall

Re: Windows and My Documents

2010-06-03 Thread Christian Heimes
> You're asking, it seems, for the equivalent of a UNIX softlink... > Normal Windows doesn't support those (I think they are in the OS > somewhere but not made visible to the user). Actually NTFS supports hard links, soft links and junction points since Windows 2k. [1] Christian [1] http:/

Re: Windows and My Documents

2010-06-03 Thread Bob Greschke
On 2010-06-03 09:57:11 -0600, Tim Golden said: On 03/06/2010 16:39, Bob Greschke wrote: How do I do a "listdir" (or whatever I need to use) of the Desktop on a Windows machine and have "folders" like My Documents show up in the result? I'm specifically trying to get a link to VMWare Shared Fo

Re: Windows and My Documents

2010-06-03 Thread Tim Golden
On 03/06/2010 16:39, Bob Greschke wrote: How do I do a "listdir" (or whatever I need to use) of the Desktop on a Windows machine and have "folders" like My Documents show up in the result? I'm specifically trying to get a link to VMWare Shared Folders to show up so I can navigate to files in OSX

Windows and My Documents

2010-06-03 Thread Bob Greschke
I know this must have been asked before, but today Google is not my friend. How do I do a "listdir" (or whatever I need to use) of the Desktop on a Windows machine and have "folders" like My Documents show up in the result? I'm specifically trying to get a link to VMWare Shared Folders to sho