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Symbolic Links on Win32/NTFS

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Is it possible to have something similar to a symbolic link in XP using NTFS? I remember hearing MS marketing throwing around the symbolic link analogy a few years ago for a win2k feature.

Basically, this is what I want to do.

I have a 'util' directory which contains several command line utilities. It's included in my system path. The problem is that I have all of these utilities, but they're all mixed in with eachother. I would like to put each utility in it's own subdirectory of util (i.e. util/rar or util/pkzip). Then I would like to symlink the executables of each program to the root 'util' directory so that I don't have to include each subdirectory of util in the system path.

Can I do this? Is there a better way of accomplishing this? Thanks in advance.
 
well, you could just use shortcuts, they work from the cmd prompt ok.... I don't know how to make them from the command line though which is annoying.
 
Excellent, this is exactly what I wanted. I didn't know shortcuts (the .pif ones) acted this way from the command prompt.
 
Standard PIF shortcuts will do the job, as will NTFS hard links.

For information on NTFS hard links, please read my FAQ: FAT32 vs NTFS.
 
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