Annoyance will make Vista users to switch to Ubuntu.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 08 June 2006 16:10, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Michael T. Richter wrote:

> > 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.

I don't recall that.

I do remember running a 3rd party command interpreter (4dos) which had 
a load of unix-isms in it: aliases, tab completion, a sane batch 
language, consistent file comments/descriptions that showed up when 
using dir, and a symlink-like function (I forget the name but it 
wasn't called symlinks).

-- 
If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
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