Thread: symlink versus FAT
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2007-09-06 , 07:50
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Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
The closest Microsoft ever came to supporting symlinks is with shortcuts, but that's not really the same thing at all as shortcuts are not really a feature of the filesystem, instead they're supported by the shell (Explorer) and associated high level file access APIs.
Well, NTFS filesystem supports soft and hard links since windows 2000 but there is no tool from microsoft to create them. Microsoft needed it to implement their posix subsystem but otherwise this complex and confusing feature is hidden from normal users. You can install some 3rd party freeware to create such links.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

Also they added something in Vista too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
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