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Subject: Re: MS-DOS extension,address
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:20:00 EDT
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[The question is whether, under MS-DOS, one can give a file multiple names
as with the Unix link call.]

Yes, you can, but no, you shouldn't.  It is fairly easy to patch a DOS
directory so that you have more than one name pointing to the same chain
of disk blocks.  It's a bad idea, though, because DOS doesn't expect there to
be more than one name for a file and if you delete any of the names, all of
the blocks for the file will be marked free and reused.

Also, chkdsk will correctly claim that your disk is scrambled, and will
try to fix it.

John Levine, ima!johnl