New symlinks.

[Daniel Barclay]

Ehud Karni wrote:
> 
...
> The real problem of Windows .lnk files (within Windows use) is that
> even though you can make link to a directory, you can not really use
> it. Unlike UNIX, you can not use .lnk files as middle part of path,
> it may only be used as the terminating part (basename) of a path.

Why not?  Or, probably, "where not"?

In the Window UI, you can have links (shortcuts) to directories.  
Conceptually, these are in the middle part of a path (the virtual
path you tranverse step by step in the UI).

Are links not usable in the middle of pathnames given to the command-line 
interpreter?  Or are links not usuable in pathnames given to Windows OS
calls for file operations.

Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
Digital Focus
Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com

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