[PLUG] Windows symbolic links?

[Ed Sawicki]

Brent Rieck wrote:
> Ed Sawicki wrote:
>> I've had my head down programming for the past several
>> weeks so I haven't been paying attention. Someone recently
>> suggested that Windows now has the equivalent of UNIX/Linux
>> symbolic links in (one of) its filesystems. He didn't have
>> any details.
>>
>> I'm aware of NTFS junction points, which I don't consider
>> to have the functionality of symbolic links. Has anything
>> else been introduced that has symbolic links functionality?
> 
> Windows Vista and later has the feature, it appears to be more similar 
> to "real" symbolic links than junction points are: "Symbolic links are 
> designed to aid in migration and application compatibility with UNIX 
> operating systems. Microsoft has implemented its symbolic links to 
> function just like UNIX links."
> 
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365680.aspx
> 
> wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

Thanks, Brent. It seems like NTFS symbolic links have existed
for a while. None of the documentation I've read today tells
me whether Windows Vista ships with either a command line program
or a GUI tool to create symbolic links. I don't have Vista. Do
you know?

Ed

> 
> --Brent