Re: How to create a relative shortcut ?

In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 Jakob Bohm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Significantly older NTFS versions only supported absolute symlinks in 
> the form of "junctions", which were stored on disk in terms of the 
> kernel namespace name of the drive containing the target directory 
> (junctions cannot link to files), but I don't remember the exact cut-off 
> OS version that introduced general NTFS symlinks, which may be different
> from the version that added mklink and other UI support.

Windows 2000 added support for Junctions.  Vista added Symbolic Links
and mklink.  Windows 2000 had no inbox tools at all, but the resource
kit had linkd, and Sysinternals made junction.  Today there's plenty of
tools available.

- M