The tutor continues about file system links in Windows.

In yesterday’s post I began about file system links, emphasizing hard links. Today I’ll continue, this time with soft, or symbolic, ones.

Apparently, Windows refers to soft links as symbolic links or symlinks. A file can be opened from its symbolic link, but the user can see the file resides elsewhere. In the Command Prompt, a symbolic link is labeled <SYMLINK>, while in Windows Explorer, it appears as type .symlink.

To construct a symbolic link in Windows, first open the Command Prompt, which you may have to run as administrator. The command might look like

mklink c:\the_direc\the_link_name c:\other_direc\the_file_name

I tested a web page opening a script at both a hard link and a symbolic one. The hard one runs, but the soft one doesn’t.

Source: www.howtogeek.com

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.