[PD] same extra patch for different pd versions

[carmen]

On Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 01:48:24PM +0100, João Miguel Pais wrote:
> >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.

it pretty much works how its described above (eg, not at all, maybe you can get a hard link if you're lucky) even on the NT of 10 years later, winXP