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Re: Recognising Symbolic Links under Windows XP
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Mathias Dahl |
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Re: Recognising Symbolic Links under Windows XP |
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Date: |
Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:20:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
davin.pearson@gmail.com writes:
> I was recently using Emacs under Gnu/Linux where I learnt about
> symbolic links and how useful they are.
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> These days I am mainly using Emacs under Windows XP so I wondered if
> it was possible for Emacs to recognise Windows-style symbolic links
> (*.lnk files)
FYI, there is something called "junctions" that NTFS supports. It
works more or less like symbolic links on GNU/Linux or Unix
systems. You need a special command line tool to create them.
You can find one such tool here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html
I use it to make a symbolic link from my "emacs-22.xyz..." to a folder
with the simpler name "emacs", and it works great.