Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!indri!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!amperif!unocss!ho@fergvax.unl.edu From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Symbolic links in DOS (a la Unix) ? Message-ID: <1327@unocss.UUCP> Date: 4 Aug 89 18:35:41 GMT References: <5569@arcturus> Sender: news@unocss.UUCP Reply-To: ho@fergvax.unl.edu Lines: 16 From article <5569@arcturus>, by mitch@arcturus.UUCP (Mitchell S. Gorman): > What problems would occur if one should attempt to implement a > unix-like symbolic link to directories by creating an entry in a directory > that has a FAT start-point that is the same as a "real" directory somewhere > else in the tree? As someone else mentioned, that's a little more like a hard link, but then who's counting? On a more serious note, DON'T run chkdsk after doing this ... also, don't run any disk optimizers, and don't remove either of the directories. chkdsk will mark it as a cross-linked file and do heaven-knows-what to your directories. --- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska