From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T05:35:51+09:00
Subject: Re: require bug?? (1.8.0)

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:57:34 +0900, Gavri Savio Fernandez wrote:
>> From: Carl Youngblood [mailto:carl@youngbloods.org]
>> Getting the inode will work on most unix systems.  My guess is that
>> getting the physical path will work on Windows (for now anyway.  I've
>> heard that they are thinking of adding symbolic links in longhorn).
> isn't the 'windows shortcut' the equivalent of symbolic links?

Not at all. The Windows Shortcut is just a file (.lnk) that gets treated 
specially by the shell.

Windows 2000 and XP support hard links on NTFS systems.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.12.02
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