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RE: Minor bug and a question
- To: "cowan at pswtech dot com" <cowan at pswtech dot com>
- Subject: RE: Minor bug and a question
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:49:54 +0300
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
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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.
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