How create symbolic link in TC6?

LamboR · Post by *LamboR » 2003-11-25, 11:06 UTC

How create symbolic link in TC6 as in Far (Alt+F6)?

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-11-25, 11:31 UTC

2LamboR

You can create a shortcut using cm_CreateShortcut. The default hotkey for this command is Ctrl+Shift+F5.

LamboR · Post by *LamboR » 2003-11-25, 12:03 UTC

2 Lefteous
No, Ctrl+Shift+F5 - create a shortcut (it file *.lnk). I want create link using NTFS.

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-11-25, 12:29 UTC

2Lefteous

Sorry I always thought a shell link (*.lnk-file) is the same as a symbolic link in the Unix world, but you are right it's not the same. I can't see a difference in their behavior but a symbolic link appears as a directory and a shell link is always a file. Symbolic links can only link to directories.
Can you give some more informations on symbolic links in windows. Is there a windows command line to create symbolic links?

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2003-11-25, 15:51 UTC

Can you give some more informations on symbolic links in windows. Is there a windows command line to create symbolic links?

fsutil hardlink create NewFilename ExistingFilename
Press Win+F1, and search for hardlink.

Symbolic links can only link to directories

No, what you mean is subst maybe.

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-11-25, 16:02 UTC

2SanskritFritz

No, we are not talking about hard links or subst. What I discribed was the behavior of Alt+F6 in FAR. Just try it.

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2003-11-25, 16:22 UTC

No, we are not talking about hard links or subst. What I discribed was the behavior of Alt+F6 in FAR. Just try it.

Dont have FAR, but a sybmolic link is a hardlink. I guess. Is there a difference?

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-11-25, 16:29 UTC

2SanskritFritz

Dont have FAR

http://www.rarsoft.com/far/Far1705.exe

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2003-11-25, 16:46 UTC

We're getting off topic here...

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-11-25, 16:53 UTC

2SanskritFritz

off topic? downloading FAR and testing the "create symbolic links feature" helped me to understand the meaning of symbolic links.

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2003-11-25, 16:55 UTC

downloading FAR and testing the creating symbolic links helped me to understand the meaning of symbolic links.

Explain please, as I understand now, symbolic links and hard links are different? If yes, then a symbolic link is a junction point in windows terminology. You said it can be applied only to directories.

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-11-25, 17:00 UTC

2SanskritFritz

No, it's not a junction point! It's something I have never seen before. As decribed above:

1. It behaves similar to a lnk file. Deleting the "symbolic link directory" will not delete the associated directory. Double click will open the contents of the associated folder in TC filelist window
2. Can only be applied to directories.

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2003-11-25, 17:02 UTC

This sounds exactly like a junction point

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2003-11-25, 17:09 UTC

2SanskritFritz

Tell me how to create the thing that you call "junction point" and I will tell you if that is the same thing as the symbolic link.

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2003-11-25, 17:10 UTC

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