Arthur S. Alexion on Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:03:48 -0400 |
On Sunday 07 July 2002 07:32 pm, Art Clemons wrote: > > BTW, Art, in connection with those brain dead installation programs > > that want to put themselves on c:\program files, can you move the > > contents of program files to , say, the e:\ drive, delete the > > directory c:\program files, and replace it with a short cut of the > > same name (a symlink) that points to the e:\ directory? (sorry for > > this OT question, everyone) > > Windows doesn't do symlinks as far as I know. However, I did learn > that I could copy any files written to c:\?? to d:\windows or > e:\program files\??? rather easily with minimal chance of the > braindead program objecting except when it's time to uninstall. *.lnk files have some of the properties of symlinks. I never thought of this before your post, but I'm going to try an experiment. -- _______________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC mailto:arthur@alexion.com http://www.alexion.com ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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