Re: Can ImageJ resolve aliases?

Posted by dscho on Jun 14, 2008; 5:50am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Can-ImageJ-resolve-aliases-tp3695907p3695913.html

Hi,

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Fco. Javier Merino Guardiola wrote:

>
> El 13/06/2008, a las 22:27, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
>
> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
> >
> >Please do not promote NTFS "symbolic links".  They are so ridiculously
> >wrong on so many levels to everybody who has worked with proper
> >symbolic links.
>
> I didnt tested the NTFS symbolic links because I dont have Windows and I
> dont have NTFS partitions, but as the wikipedia link says it should work
> as in any Unix/POSIX operating system.
>
> You should realize that I was talking about "real symbolic links" (you
> need to use the terminal)  and not the "shortcut links" that creates the
> explorer (obviously that kind of files will not work).

I know that you did not talk about shortcuts, but symbolic links.

Yet, if they cannot point to another drive, or if they cannot be relative,
they do not deserve to be called "real symbolic links".  It might very
well be that the inventors realized that, too, because they did not even
dare to bundle programs to create them links.

Hth,
Dscho