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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:21:07 +0200
From: Stein Somers <ssomers AT opnet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points
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Brian Dessent wrote:

> You can't use a junction point to make a relative link, as you can with
> symbolic links. That makes them significantly less useful.

But still a giant leap from setting up drive letters with subst, which 
used to be the only Windows way I know to introduce a layer of 
indirection in file naming.

As a user of junction points, outside of cygwin, I would label them 
symlinks to directories only that you have to remove with rmdir.

Stein

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