Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hplsla!davidr 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 Lines: 13 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!