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From: dixon@sagittarius.crd.ge.com (walt dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Symbolic links in DOS (a la Unix) ?
Summary: would make DOS and users unhappy
Keywords: Putting the FAT in the fire
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Date: 4 Aug 89 12:36:16 GMT
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There are two problems with this idea.  Since DOS doesn't know anything
about reference counts,  file deletion will leave dangling references.
Subsequent operations on these references have the potential to trash
your disk structure.  chkdsk would not be too happy about finding
the same cluster in more than one file.

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