I'd never heard of this facility and thought the original post was wrong. However, I can confirm that it does work on NT4 SP6 using AS 5.6.1. Now I just gotta work out some good uses for it.

The are some caveats though. Q106166

Kinda reenforces my favorite bugbear with W2K though. Why do I have to waste all that disk storing copies of files that exist in \winnt\system32 in the hidden subdir \winnt\system32\dllcache? Including such important files as winmine.exe 220mb of wasted space! D'oh. 

C:\test>test
Contents of ./filename1.txt before linking:
This is the contents of filename1.txt
Contents of ./link.txt after linking:
This is the contents of filename1.txt
Coontents of ./filename1.txt after updating:
This is the contents of filename1.txt
Additional content
Contents of ./link.txt after updating:
This is the contents of filename1.txt
Additional content

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Creating shortcuts by BrowserUk
in thread Creating shortcuts by raveguy2k

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