Re: Fw: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 14:09:33 EST


On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mark H. Wood wrote:

>> From: "Mark Hahn" <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
>> > it's just a content-addressable filestore. nothing new, and definitely
>> > unrelated to symlinks. the point is to uniquify files, almost certainly
>>
>> Anyone want to impart clue? I'm under the impression that symlinks
>> and shortcuts are the same thing; hardlinks and shortcuts are
>> different.
>
>Shortcuts are not symlinks, so much as that they *contain* symlinks. A
>shortcut is a blob of shell metadata that tells Explorer how to run the
>thing it points at, as well as where to find it. The closest analogue in
>Unix would be a wrapper shellscript that sets up the environment and runs
>an app. with switches supplied.

... or a KDE ".kdelnk" style shortcut, or the equiv in GNOME.

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