Hi, Saturday, September 23, 2006, 10:37:20 AM, you wrote: RL> On Mon, September 18, 2006 4:53 pm, Ross wrote: >> Can someone explain how and why you would use a symlink in php? RL> A symlink is the Un*x version of a Windows "shortcut" or the Mac's RL> "alias" RL> The difference being that a symlink actually *works* and a Windows RL> "shortcut" is useless for anything except their crappy desktop app... in windows 2k and xp you can use fsutil to create hard links in the same NTFS volume. Usage : fsutil hardlink create <new filename> <existing filename> fsutil hardlink create c:\foo.txt c:\bar.txt But it probably has a few bugs of its own :) and it can't do your edit trick as it only works on files not directories as far as I can tell. -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
