Annoyance will make Vista users to switch to Ubuntu.

[Derek Broughton]

Michael T. Richter wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-06 at 07:00 -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> 
>> I was always under the impression that shortcuts in Windows were
>> more-or-less a file for explorer, that opened the file that it's
>> pointing too.  Micheal Richter informed me that this was not so.  I
>> don't know how I made that assumption.  Perhaps because whenever I
>> opened a shortcut in the file chooser, the shortcut would be the
>> selected file, rather than the file it's pointing to...  Excuse my
>> ignorance, everyone!
> 
> 
> You mistook my message.  That is precisely what a link is in Explorer.
> But a symlink is little more than that as well.  (Which is why we can
> make symlinks across differing file systems, for example.)  It's just
> better integrated under UNIX, but under the covers a symlink is just a
> special file which points to another file.  Just like a .lnk file.
> 
> And, under Windows, you can make symlinks to directories in a manner
> pretty much identical to UNIX ones.

You could actually do that on FAT systems way back in the DOS days - I'm not
sure why Windows never made it easier.
-- 
derek