symbolic links in Win2k

[drslump]

One of the features I miss in Windows is the ability to create symbolic links to files/dirs like in Unix based OSs.

I think to know that NTFS has support built in for these symlinks but I don't know how to create them.

Is there any application able to do this in Win2k?

cheers, Ivan

[agallag]

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction

[tonny]

i have found this free utility (includes source code also) and have used it for some time without problems.

http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/junctionpoints.asp

[The PIT]

Okay I may have had too much cider, the backs stopped hurting but why would you want to do this anyway???

[drslump]

PIT, I have like ten db driven web sites, a compression library, an image loading library and a computer game under development.
For the websites I almost always use some base PHP classes, if I have them in a centralized folder I can just put a symlink to it on the site folder. Now, if I upgrade the library in that folder it'll be automatically upgraded for all my web sites
For general programming I use a command line compiler so having to type long paths is not something I like to do. I should install 4DOS or 4NT though.

thanks for the links Agallag and Tonny.

btw does someone know of an utility that makes symlinks of files too?

ivan

[The PIT]

Originally posted by drslump
PIT, I have like ten db driven web sites, a compression library, an image loading library and a computer game under development.
For the websites I almost always use some base PHP classes, if I have them in a centralized folder I can just put a symlink to it on the site folder. Now, if I upgrade the library in that folder it'll be automatically upgraded for all my web sites
For general programming I use a command line compiler so having to type long paths is not something I like to do. I should install 4DOS or 4NT though.

thanks for the links Agallag and Tonny.

btw does someone know of an utility that makes symlinks of files too?

ivan

Okay doke now I see why. I was just curious.

[agallag]

I haven't tried it, but I think the one I linked to does files too.

[drslump]

it doesn't Agallag but it works like a charm for dirs that is what I most need. thanks again for the link

it's not supported internally by NTFS so it'll need a more complex program to do it.

ivan

[Gurm]

Well no NTFS supports it... but Windows doesn't support MAKING them natively.

Or did you mean that NTFS doesn't support symlinks for FILES, which I'd believe?

- Gurm

[drslump]

Gurm, NTFS doesn't support symlinks to files.
me and my engrish

btw M$ have tools for making this symlinks but they come with the Win2k Resource Kit which is not free and do not come with the OS

ciao, Ivan