From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Minor bug and a question
11 Feb 1997 14:55:39 -0800
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Jim Balter wrote:

> What's a hard link? :-)  The only hard links in the MS world
> are the ones on NTFS produced by programs running in the Windows NT
> POSIX subsystem.

Hard links are not POSIX subsystem-specific. Hard links may be created easy 
using documented Win32 API, see description of BackupWrite() API call. NTFS 
in Windows NT 5.0 will support symlinks and mounting points.


PS. I want NT 5.0!-)
--
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


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