On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
so w32 "links" are one of the biggest fakes in fs history. i hope they have a patent on it.
KDE has exactly the same concept, I don't know why.
otoh, if it works: fine (they have finally have managed to mount harddisks into an existing filesystem (whoa) and not as "X:"; probably they have implemented links too)
mounting harddisk into an existing filesystem was a feature of MSDOS 3, but it still needed an intermediate drive letter. you'd use JOIN.EXE to make a virtual directory from a drive letter; you'd use SUBST.EXE to make a virtual drive letter from a directory. For a while I had a use for those features but I don't recall what it was.
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