.QW \fB\-hard\fR .
.PP
On Unix, symbolic links can be made to relative paths, and those paths
must be relative to the actual \fIlinkName\fR's location (not to the
cwd), but on all other platforms where relative links are not supported,
target paths will always be converted to absolute, normalized form
before the link is created (and therefore relative paths are interpreted
as relative to the cwd).  Furthermore,
.QW ~user
paths are always expanded
to absolute form.  When creating links on filesystems that either do not
support any links, or do not support the specific type requested, an
error message will be returned.  Most Unix platforms support both
symbolic and hard links (the latter for files only). Windows
supports symbolic directory links and hard file links on NTFS drives.
.RE
.TP
\fBfile lstat \fIname ?varName?\fR

On Windows, a file can be
.QW started
easily enough (equivalent to double-clicking on it in the Explorer
interface) but the name passed to the operating system must be in
native format:
.PP
.CS
exec {*}[auto_execok start] {} [\fBfile nativename\fR ~/example.txt]
.CE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
filename(n), open(n), close(n), eof(n), gets(n), tell(n), seek(n),
fblocked(n), flush(n)
.SH KEYWORDS
attributes, copy files, delete files, directory, file, move files, name,
rename files, stat, user
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