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From: swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Symbolic links in DOS (a la Unix) ?
Message-ID: <-286529992@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Aug 89 15:51:47 GMT
References: <5569@arcturus>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Andy Toy of MKS writes:

>> Someone could always write a few utilities to support linked
>> files.  We would need a chkdsk-like programme (might as well
>> call it fsck) that would do the same thing as chkdsk and handle
>> linked files.

>> Of course we need a ln command to create the links.  Also mv and rm
>> would have to check for links before deallocating the blocks.

>> Sounds like it could be an interesting project.

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Go for it Andy.  I can hardly wait for the MKS Toolkit upgrade.