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From: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 'link'ing a la U*IX in DOS
Message-ID: <3164@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 90 17:31:54 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.193543.13903@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1990Jun1.193543.13903@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Wayne Hudson) writes:
>I'm running DOS 3.3 on a '286 that's stretched in memory and disk space.  What
>I'm looking for is something that will let me make symbolic links, like U*IX.
>
>(ie. have file E:\FOOBAR\REPORT.FOO point to the actual file, D:\RALPH\HEER.XXX)
>Can it be done? Cheaply? :-)




It can be done.. look for a program called FLINK   .. email me directly if you 
cannot find it.  The overhead cost of this implementation is one disk cluster 
per link, so it only saves space if the linked file is larger than one cluster,
although it NEVER will cost more space than having two copies of the file would.
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