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From: ggp AT informix DOT com (Guy Gascoigne - Piggford)
Subject: Re: Alternate Mixed Case scheme?
5 Feb 1998 16:58:20 -0800 :
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 03:45 AM 2/5/98 EST, you wrote:
>MS has forgotten real softlinks and gave us those nasty shortcuts instead,
>when in reality the NT kernel structures have symlinks, e.g. A: to
>\\DOSdevices\A or something like that...

It'll be interesting to see how well the symlinks in NTFS5 work, though
it'll be a while before NT 5.0 get released :-(

Guy

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