Quoting Jamie Bliss, from the post of Tue, 05 Apr:
Anyway, for those literate in C, it involves a call to CreateHardLink(), which is defined as: [...] I'll send anyone the short program I have (I can't say I wrote it, don't remember) to make a hard link. The API is only supported, however, on 2k and XP.
no need. you can get it with "hardlink magic" (freeware off the web) and I do believe also with "ln" in a cygwin shell.