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cluetip

5-29-2009 4:49 PM

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cluetip says:

I have another cilp title "Symbolic links", though it should has been called "The hards link. This clip is the original artice about symbolic links . I apologized for any confusion cause the previous clip related to hard link.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/089b43aa-14a4-4b60-93d7-a38bbb370880/B42E530A-E6DC-4322-82B8-1BACA99483F5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/howto_master_your_file_system_mklink" href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/howto_master_your_file_system_mklink" style="font-size: 11px;">www.maximumpc.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/howto_master_your_file_system_mklink"><P></p> <H2>What is a symbolic link?</H2>
<P>A symbolic link is very much like what you would normally call a “shortcut.” it creates a pointer to a different part of the file system, redirecting your computer to that location when accessed. What makes a symbolic link different from a shortcut is that it is handled at the operating system level, rather than at the application level. This means that whereas only a few programs (such as explorer.exe) know how to handle a shortcut file, a symbolic link can be used with almost any program that deals with the file system.</p> <P>With a symbolic link, if the target directory or file is deleted, the link becomes non-functioning, as it points to a file that no longer exists. In a way, this gives symbolic links extra flexibility, as you can create a symbolic link to a file or folder that doesn’t actually exist, but will later. Symbolic links take up no space, and if you delete a symbolic link, nothing happens to the original data.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B42E530A-E6DC-4322-82B8-1BACA99483F5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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