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Originally Posted by eschwartz
But those are symlinks, which Unix/Linux created,
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Ahem - they were in Data Generals RDOS, Digital Equipment's TOPS and General Electrics GECOS, I'm pretty certain they were in Multics and I'd be surprised if they were not also in Burrough's MCP. All of which predate the development of Unix, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on the Multics project at MIT prior to creating Unix at Bell.
The evolution of Operating Systems didn't start with Unix, although one could argue its more or less come to halt ever since.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...Windows XP can't make them ... Here is a program to create a GUI for the process: Link Shell Extension |
At the bottom of the LSE page there's a link to a library from Masatoshi Kimura that exposes the functions to create symlinks on XP - they were always there, just that MS kept them hidden. I used the library for many years on NT.5.1 and XP (NT 5.2).
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