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date: 2005-10-26 21:24:52
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ML> so you can configure your programs and such to point to the
ML> one, never changing symlink but you can change where the
ML> symlink points to if/when you need to... this way, you're
ML> just changing one thing to point to the new location rather
ML> than having to change all those program's configs... 

 CA> One of the shortcomings of Microsoft OS - no symlinks. :-( 

you got that right... and IIRC, the ability for such was purposely removed from
their first OS they did for IBM... sometime back then, they came up with some
"brilliant" idea that "'crosslinked' files" were a bad thing...

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