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> wow.. I almost missed this post... really helpful.. I have a couple of > questions though. > > 1) is there a CreateSoftLinkW and CreateSoftLinkA.. No, unfortunately. I've often wished for these myself. Windows doesn't have a transparent implementation for *symbolic* links (shortcuts are the closest it gets there; but as you've already noted, they have implementation issues). > 2) where can I find the documentation on the usage of these > commands? MSDN has documentation on the API call used: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createhardlink.asp > 3) does this support file as well as directory links? File links only. The API call fails if you specify a directory as the file to link to. :( > Anyways, I downloaded hard link magic, and it looks like its only a gui > wrapper. And is there a command line tool to do this? I don't know if there's an official tool from Microsoft that encapsulates the functionality; but there are numerous third-party utilities written that can do it, some command-line, some GUI. This site has a Perl script (using Win32::API::Prototype) for a command-line tool using CreateHardLink (search down for Example 3.3): http://www.codeproject.com/books/1578702151.aspThread Previous | Thread Next