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From: davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Symbolic links in DOS (a la Unix) ?
Message-ID: <5190030@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Aug 89 18:19:11 GMT
References: <5569@arcturus>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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I agree.  I would like to see a set of utilities that will handle linked
files under DOS properly.  (And I know of no one better qualified to do
this than MKS.)  

For example, to conserve disc space, it would be nice to have one program
with three names linked to it (cp, rm, ln) that simply looks at the name it
was called by to determine the minor little differences in action that
would need to occur when it runs.  

A further extension of this idea would be so that one BATch file could have
many branches, and simply by looking at what name it was invoked by would
act like a GOTO to branch to the proper section of the BATch file.  I could
really put a feature like this to use!