The ActivePerl 5.8 documentation says the link function is unimplemented, yet it works for me: 
C:\Temp>dir /a:-d /b
File Not Found

C:\Temp>perl -e "link 'C:\Perl\lib\ActivePerl.pm', 'HardLinkToActivePe
+rl.pm'"

C:\Temp>dir /a:-d /b
HardLinkToActivePerl.pm

C:\Temp>head -7 HardLinkToActivePerl.pm
package ActivePerl;

sub perl_version {
    return sprintf("%vd.%s", $^V, BUILD());
}

1;

C:\Temp>

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I have to write a Perl script to create hard links to many files on a Windows NTFS file system and I don't want to use the internal link function if it only works for me by accident somehow.

My question is simply this: Is the documentation just plain wrong? Is link fully implemented in ActivePerl 5.8 for Windows despite what the ActivePerl-faq5 - Implementation Quirks document says?

Jim

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