Re: webhttrack. start please

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:00:38PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:

I know. symlinks are way better. in windows they're called... um.. well
something else and are a real pain to create. Before anyone says I'm
wrong and windows cannot do symlinks... I am not. I know alot about that
OS, and am not mistaken. If anyone WANTS to know, I will pull up the
details and post them

In windows they are called "junction points" and they require Windows
2000 and an NTFS partition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

Regards,

-Roberto

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