Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>:
I have something which looks like a symlink on my Win2k box. Windows calls it a Shortcut in listings. Is that not roughly the same thing as a symlink?
Only if it's transparent to the system calls which operate on files (e.g. open()ing it opens the file that it refers to, etc.) I don't believe that's the case with Windows shortcuts. Macintosh "aliases" have the same problem. (And now with MacOS X, we have both aliases *and* symlinks in the same system, just to add to the confusion...) Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+