From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Minor bug and a question 11 Feb 1997 14:55:39 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC183B.9D1D6E20.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: "cowan@pswtech.com" Original-Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Encoding: 17 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Jim Balter wrote: > What's a hard link? :-) The only hard links in the MS world > are the ones on NTFS produced by programs running in the Windows NT > POSIX subsystem. Hard links are not POSIX subsystem-specific. Hard links may be created easy using documented Win32 API, see description of BackupWrite() API call. NTFS in Windows NT 5.0 will support symlinks and mounting points. PS. I want NT 5.0!-) -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".