Vista and WIN7 now supports symbolic links, a feature that has been enjoyed in UNIX for a long time.
D:\>mklink
Creates a symbolic link. MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target /D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file
symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J Creates a Directory Junction.
Link specifies the new symbolic link name.
Target specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link
refers to.
Here is an example of how it works.
D:\>mklink /d d:\foo d:\example1\example2\example3\example4
symbolic link created for d:\foo <<===>> d:\example1\example2\example3\example4
D:\>dir
Directory of D:\
02/18/2010 07:47 PM < DIR> example1
02/18/2010 07:48 PM <SYMLINKD> foo [d:\example1\example2\example3\example4]
Now I can save myself some typing by doing a “cd d:\foo” instead of “cd d:\example1\example2\example3\example4″.
For more information, see the following from MSDN:
