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Edward Peschko <esp@pyroshells.com> writes: > >Short point - symbolic links not working on NT is a major pain in the #$#$#%. >Perl making them work (and work transparently) would be a big plus. I short cut is NOT a link though - they have other semantics - someone once likened them to #!/bin/sh exec another/path $1 which is closer to what they do in particular one of their semantics is akin to #!/bin/sh cd some/path exec another/path $1 >Anyone know why microsoft doesn't just bite the bullet and put them in? Is it >a limit in NTFS? You can run a POSIX subsystem on NT which has all the "required" semantics (but no GUI! - so it does not get used much). -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next