[OpenAFS] JP Software's Take Command and OpenAFS for Windows

[Jeffrey Altman]

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I have in the past promoted JP Software's Take Command as an alternative
command line shell for Windows users.  As far as I am aware it is the
only OpenAFS aware command shell.  There are many benefits for OpenAFS
users:

1. It permits UNC paths to be the current directory so drive letter
mappings are not required.

2. The command parser understands UNIX style inputs

  /afs/your-file-system.com/user/jaltman

and automatically converts them to UNC notation

  \\afs\your-file-system.com\user\jaltman

3. The command language contains @AFSCELL, @AFSMOUNT, @AFSPATH,
@AFSSYMLINK, @AFSVOLID, @AFSVOLNAME functions which operate on paths.

and new in the 14.03 release:

4. MKLINK and MKLNK can be used to create hard links in AFS

5. Directory output displays mount point and symlink target information:

 Directory of  \\afs\your-file-system.com\*

 4/11/2012  21:00         <DIR>    backups
 9/13/2012  13:48         <DIR>    project
12/05/2011  10:14    <JUNCTION>    public [#root.public]
 3/14/2011  12:52         <DIR>    service
 7/26/2010  20:44    <JUNCTION>    support [#root.support]
 6/15/2011  11:40    <JUNCTION>    test [#test.test]
 2/15/2012   8:49         <DIR>    u
 7/24/2012  13:32         <DIR>    user
11/28/2011  17:01    <SYMLINKD>    usr [user]
12/10/2009   0:34    <JUNCTION>    www [#root.www]
 9/11/2011   0:12              30  autorun.inf
                30 bytes in 1 file and 10 dirs
   999,999,902,720 bytes free

You can obtain Take Command from http://www.jpsoft.com/.





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