Symlinks in Windows
I found myself some time ago cursing that Windows doesn't have
a native support for symbolic links, which have been supported
for aeions in Unix and related operating systems. I still gave
it a look with the all-mighty Google and noticed I was wrong,
as usual.
NTFS has supported
symbolic links since version 5.0, which dates back to Windows
2000 and year 1999. This is very nice to know and I would have
appreciated knowing it already a few years ago.
Microsoft offers some command line tools for
junction points* and there are various graphic tools for
use as well, eg. Winbolic.
* I just noticed that Microsoft offers translation of this
document in a very odd language called Brazilian. Way to go, Microsoft!
