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From: Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Recognising Symbolic Links under Windows XP
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:20:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzmsjoxdr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1121766237.891871.53790@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

davin.pearson@gmail.com writes:

> I was recently using Emacs under Gnu/Linux where I learnt about
> symbolic links and how useful they are.
>
> These days I am mainly using Emacs under Windows XP so I wondered if
> it was possible for Emacs to recognise Windows-style symbolic links
> (*.lnk files)

FYI, there is something called "junctions" that NTFS supports. It
works more or less like symbolic links on GNU/Linux or Unix
systems. You need a special command line tool to create them.

You can find one such tool here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html

I use it to make a symbolic link from my "emacs-22.xyz..." to a folder
with the simpler name "emacs", and it works great.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-19 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-19  9:43 Recognising Symbolic Links under Windows XP davin.pearson
2005-07-19 11:20 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
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2005-07-19 10:20 LENNART BORGMAN
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2005-07-21  6:53 ` davin.pearson

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