Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:40:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP innovations ?????
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Alain Magloire wrote:

> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
> 
>   Maybe Laurynas should send his resume to M$,  I beleive he was trying to
> incorporate symlinks for DJGPP :
> 
>   According to the press release, there are about 450 "researchers"
> working full time.   Where do you want to go today ??? Back to the future ?
> Just hope they will not put a patent on it.

In all fairness, M$ is doing more than just symlinks: it also has some 
daemon program running in the background and actively looking for files 
that can be replaced by links to other files, thus freeing the disk 
space.

IMHO, this is going to be one of those ``features'' people would love to 
turn off (e.g., what happens if you delete the sole copy of the file 
after the daemon linked half a dozen other files to it: does Windows then 
go back and automagically restore the original file it replaced with a 
link?).