Re: Sof tlink on NT5.0 aka Windows 2000

[Fabien Roy <fabienr@ncmi.com>]

You wrote:
> > I am not trying to start a new flame war on NT vs UNIX but I
> > would like to know if hard or soft links are implemented in NT
> > 5.0 (Windows 2000) on the current beta.
>
> NTFS running on NT4 has support for both hard and soft links. The
> problem is that none of the software running above this has any
> implemented support for using hard or soft links. NT5/Win2k should
> have fully implemented support for both.
>
> A while back MS published a demo of their NT-DFS up on a web page.
> Once you installed it the NT shell would gain support for using
> links. Unfortunately, this update didn't work with IE4 and was
> pulled from the web site.
>
> If you really need this I can look it up in my MSDN docs or give
> you a Web page to get the info you need.
>
> Hope this helps.
How does this compare to the UNIX link type.
When you create a hard or soft link on a file on unix the  
application does not need to know if it's a link in order to open  
it.
For the soft link you can link directories on UNIX and it has the  
same behavior as the original path.
Links can have absolute or relative path.

So I do not understand your statement "NTFS running on NT4 has  
support for both hard and soft links".
Because if I create a hardlink on a file, this means that I am  
accessing the same file under different name, no matter what  
application I am using.

Maybe MS definition of link (hard or soft) is different from the  
one we know on UNIX.

Thanks.

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