Annoyance will make Vista users to switch to Ubuntu.

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jun 8 23:57:41 BST 2006


Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On Thursday 08 June 2006 20:19, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Which would have been essentially the same thing.  The way I did it
>> in FAT it would actually have been equivalent to a Unix hard link,
>> rather than a symlink.
> 
> I'd be interested to know how you did that, purely for interests sake.
> The obvious (and wrong) way is to have both files point to the same
> first sector in the FAT. But that would make chkdsk go nuts
> complaining about cross-linked files
> 
Alan, that's about a lifetime ago!  It sounds like what I did, though... 
Chkdsk?  I wonder if it even existed in the days of DOS 3.0.
-- 
derek




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