[PD] same extra patch for different pd versions

João Miguel Pais jmmmpais at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 30 14:48:24 CEST 2006


> are you sure this works?
>
> afaik, w32 "shortcuts" are not "links" (as in unix) but ("text") files
> which hold the name of the file they are "referencing" too. btw, these
> files have the extension .lnk
>
> the application has to be aware of the meaning of such files and
> evaluate them accordingly (w32 explorer naturally has this built in,
> but i doubt whether pd could use it "out of the box")
>
> so w32 "links" are one of the biggest fakes in fs history. i hope they
> have a patent on it.
>
> otoh, if it works: fine (they have finally have managed to mount
> harddisks into an existing filesystem (whoa) and not as "X:"; probably
> they have implemented links too)

no, windows doesn't have serious linking, just shortcutting. but there's a  
program (shareware, I think) which claims to make serious links in an ntfs  
system. I don't remember now how it's called, though.

Joao




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