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From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
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Subject: Re: Symbolic links in DOS (a la Unix) ?
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Date: 4 Aug 89 18:35:41 GMT
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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.  
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	... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska