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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 14:40:02 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@teleline.es>
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Subject: Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18
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Hi,

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Diego Calleja wrote:
> I agree. M$ did .lnk _files_, but really, there's not symlinks in vfat
> world. Even msdos doesn't recognize them. I don't remember if it's the
> same in NTFS, W2000 & XP are so good that I can't work with them in 32MB
> RAM...

Some time ago I found a document proposing a different API for Windows 
2002 which was supposed to include symlinks into ntfs, so I don't think 
it was there.

Regards,
Thunder
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