Annoyance will make Vista users to switch to Ubuntu.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 09 June 2006 00:57, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.

I'm sure it did. IIRC chkdsk was introduced in 2.0.

You do realize that now all the youngsters around here know just how 
old you and I really are, hehe :-)

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

Alan McKinnon
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