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Old 05-28-2010, 11:48 AM  
Serge Litehead
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Originally Posted by raymor View Post
No, I symlink is a nickname for the original, similar to a Windows shortcut.
(Though symlinks are smarter than shortcuts - Microsoft always does watered
down versions of what every other OS has, like obscuring files from view rather
than making them inaccessible, and calling that "security".)
win7 does have "smarter" shortcuts than whats avail by default btw, that how their OS links some folders around, i'm pretty sure previous versions also had them. i found out about it when was reading about on moving user profile folders off of C drive.
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