Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!atanasoff!jwright
From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Symbolic links in DOS (a la Unix) ?
Keywords: Putting the FAT in the fire
Message-ID: <1292@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 89 16:13:38 GMT
References: <5569@arcturus>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
Lines: 10

I think you're talking of hard links, not symbolic or soft links.

Yes, this should appear to work at first.  But eventually you'll screw up
your system.  First time you delete a file so the same space is marked
as both free and claimed by a file.  MSDOS never had any notion of links,
and trying to graft them in now would be difficult.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu