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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Symbolic links in DOS (a la Unix) ?
Keywords: Putting the FAT in the fire
Message-ID: <1604@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 89 21:00:29 GMT
References: <5569@arcturus>
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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mitch@arcturus.UUCP (Mitchell S. Gorman) writes:

<	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?  

CHKDSK will report any such "links" as "cross-linked files". And if you
have used the /f parameter, it will cheerfully nuke the files.

In short, that sort of link is not only not supported, it is considered
to be a damaged disk by the OS!!!!
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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