Hi there,
I need to be able to create hard links via Perl on Win2000. Naturally I'm using an NTFS partition ('D:') and let's assume I have a file "something.txt" in a folder called "folder". The following code was converted from another (evil) COM scripting language. However, it does not succeed. 
use Win32::OLE('in');

my $class = "HardLink.Object.1";
my $hardlink = new Win32::OLE($class);

my $sNewFile = "D:\folder\somefile.txt";

my $sExistingFile = "D:\somefile.txt";
my $Result = $hardlink->CreateNewHardLink($sNewFile, $sExistingFile);

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$hardlink does not resolve as an object (so you get an error trying to call a method on it). Does anyone know what's wrong or have another way? Thanks!

In reply to Creating Hard links in Win2000? by Umlaut

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