library path in Rd link
I think that's right -- it only works on NTFS systems. This page refers to it as an NTFS symbolic link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
On Nov 14, 2007 10:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
On 14/11/2007 7:44 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Nov 14, 2007 4:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
On Unix-alikes, the workaround is to build soft links to all the packages in a standard location; but soft links don't work on Windows (and we don't want to get into the almost-undocumented hard links that exist on some Windows file systems).
Symbolic links are available on Windows Vista:
Does this work on FAT file systems, e.g. on a USB drive? It used to be that they only worked on NTFS. Duncan Murdoch
C:\> 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.