Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!zardoz!dhw68k!felix!arcturus!mitch From: mitch@arcturus.UUCP (Mitchell S. Gorman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Symbolic links in DOS (a la Unix) ? Message-ID: <5669@arcturus> Date: 16 Aug 89 18:43:28 GMT References: <5569@arcturus> <5190030@hplsla.HP.COM> Organization: Rockwell International, Anaheim, CA Lines: 21 I posted the original query on this subject...Thru discussions via Email with someone who's name unfortunately escapes me at the moment, I thought of perhaps finally finding a use for a volume label flag being set within a subdirectory... Obviously, a directory has no clue whether or not something is linked to it, unless we tell it so. Perhaps we could use a directory entry marked as a volume label to give the "linked" directory a way to find out who it's "linkee"'s are. Oh, well, just throwing out a bit more for you folks to chew on... BTW, I am _not_ planning on writing a utility to do this, so you need not worry that _I_ will be making money on any ideas anyone may come up with. I cannot speak for anyone else, tho. Mitch @ Rockwell, Anaheim mitch@arcturus.UUCP Disclaimer: Just another in a long list of strange ideas... :^)