From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-02-26T16:30:01+09:00
Subject: Re: win32-dir 0.1.0


Dave Burt wrote:
> "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The Win32 Utils Team is happy to announce the first release of
> > win32-dir.
> >
> > What is it?
> > ===========
> > A series of extra constants for the Dir class that define special
> > folders on Win32 systems.  That's it.
>
> It's possible to make symlinks to directories in Windows.
>
> I know you can do it using a directory with a special name including
a GUID
> like this:
>   Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
>   This is a symlink to My
Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
>
> Sysinternals has a command-line tool to create and delete these:
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction
>
> Wouldn't the capability to make and inspect these be a neat addition
to this
> library?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave

Thanks Dave.  I'll take a look.

Regards,

Dan