Python 2.7 released

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-07-08, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f254 at x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
> imageguy  <imageguy1206 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ?
>>A windows "Shortcut" ?
>
> Just to be clear, a hardlink on NTFS functions almost exactly the same as
> a hardlink on a Unix filesystem -- it's a pointer to the same underlying
> file.

A windows shortcut is more like a Unix symlink (symbolic link), where
the real destination path is a string contained in the link/shortcut
file.  That destination path is then evaluated and "dereferenced" when
the link/shortcut is accessed.

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