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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 02:53:42 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 22 May 2025 02:20:36 +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote:

> The later UNIX-like file system NTFS ...

It was (and is) hard to describe NTFS as “Unix-like”. Yes, it had 
hierarchical directories and long(ish) file names, but not much else. 
Drive letters were inherited (indirectly) from DEC OSes, of all things, 
along with an insistence on having filename extensions, restrictions on 
characters allowed in names etc.

Symlinks were not even added until Windows Vista. And you have to have 
special privileges to create them.