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[News] Symbolic Links in Vista - Far Less Than Meets the Eye

Vista Symlinks Revisited...

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| Clearly, Vista's symlink API isn't complete -- hopefully this issomething 
| that can be patched via a hotfix and that we don't have to wait for 
| Fiji to get something as simple as UNC support built in.
| 
| In short, Vista's symlinks don't really exist. They pretend to be
| there for the user of the local machine (not to say that isn't useful,
| because it really is), and if another Vista PC out there somewhere
| supports the proprietary symlink code used, it's capable of accessing
| it too; but no more than that. If you plan on using Vista's symlink
| features, you better be damn-well certain that all of your machines are
| on Vista too - at all times. And if you?re in a corporate setting?
| Don't even think about it.
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