Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcupt1!swh 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 Lines: 15 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. ================== Go for it Andy. I can hardly wait for the MKS Toolkit upgrade.