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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 'link'ing a la U*IX in DOS
Summary: Here's a DOS symlink
Message-ID: <2336@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 4 Jun 90 22:57:25 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.193543.13903@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1990Jun4.025220.2149@druid.uucp>
Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA
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In article <1990Jun4.025220.2149@druid.uucp>, darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> OK so I guess what I meant to say was "You can't do it with DOS and expect
> to have a healthy file system that acts in a predictable way and anyway you
> can't do it easily."

Following is a DOS symlink facility from Fridrik Skulason of the
University of Iceland, posted back in February.

I have NOT personally tested it; you're on your own...

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Two days ago I mentioned a program I had written for solving the "linking"
problem.  Since I have received a number of requests for it, I am posting
it here.  Before anybody starts flaming me for posting a program to a .d
group, please consider:

	a) comp.binaries.ibm.pc is currently not active
	b) this is a very short posting

Anyhow - this xxencoded (note - not uuencoded) PKARCed file contains two
programs.  LINKFILE (C source provided - use Turbo C to compile) is used
to create the "links". 

Example:  If you give the command

		LINKFILE E:\LIBRARY\MYINCL.H

	  the file MYINCL.H will be created in the current directory.
	  It contains:

		FLFLE:\LIBRARY\MYINCL.H

F-LINK.EXE is a resident program. It intercepts INT 21 calls, functions
3C, 3D and 5B (Open and create file). If the file being opened (or created)
exists and starts with "FLFL", the rest of the file is assumed to contain
the actual path name.

The programs do not provide a full solution to the problem, but I hope they
will be of use to somebody.

-frisk

begin 400 f-link.arc
h4UV49Il7HYgiFJV3+0I+ik2++26IwM2kYI+2+++AHPE++H++E+2+6++czDSD
hV26+XT6l+L+-U6S5+E0Qm+VU-gQz3+3M0ZYg78Fz+0--An93EAckUDXlcDAU
hNUwu0a7icJB+rIA+9YO-+Nf6UFU+IePU+h01Yshz5iU+Y9BY2HMD1XvcUU+U
h3lE+h5ssVGeJZcylIM24wg5J07Au6JmgZE1+PFoAiWU+1HLIlG8X+B-8zP-3
hWn6-EDwS7On3-Jw+umGZT-0UllEXR0ms4CE1EQMu0HPvID+tk1CT1kTZ2p0b
hr8-x+CcEkALkqSg+ROvV0Z4XKEV4k5ccfCACpsjSjsAD3yT0YE2k+KUZwRrQ
hUtr23eHi9Y5RYETGTWpsBgsxl9CI2FccAB80GF6bGo0YaEAW1-gtNQ8EmGDT
hnFkuxf3F-VYie2S0Simt-lw6RdEVllldjC24014sQ+A6O6F-blVZZ13V4js-
hm6O+--eMZL56+PT+AA6-EAQ4i3mK0q6nPBDA0nokJ+Q1iWV2Gk8ysF6+2vvd
h2U7ME6Ok3+0CM2B939sZsU3oXanX5+hUHOSYEYqW48I5bX3W+4aul+A+SI5m
hxeJIMZub0lZbVZ0S9VKhM+3oGwLU4lc6H2ZCGoN7H2IiEk+Z7IU-++-035dy
hPH1G+E++10DGi-b1dUuNAW-sn8317goP3qVwB3+EQ41-UkYLYa4HFUl2WFE3
h2XG6Y6T1XlAfXgGcAAwQ9Uj1o22NoW97X5HY01l1IyL3YUrZo7nM7cl+3+9d
hU+UXtwkM3aDEA+KVUiYNCpiud7WsNm86fm0GUX0nkmjMe3DBd43HNYiC9Wn8
hs84ndEPQBrLcldXFdOk0g45BU2-VREm621pYPDo9hei0-01Ut7q1EYGJCK5C
hZB2-UYYG7oiA743GNCnOAW7Gy6IgBkoR313IazrONzNMBrDUQ5lh3KgAi2ue
hA4506jVk3afNldofaz3LAqvOZ4ZO-UJSCWl2WAWyDLaNtLGO+lPQ+wEMCKJY
hKgz9MgeL73SY783GF1nMCnfdJ1SHrEUHzxjFMBxLy9aq5kixPT2P0kj7kNMP
JV1LZapMflCMLM+GxAQRynTKV+Fc+
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end
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         Fridrik Skulason          University of Iceland
         frisk@rhi.hi.is           Computing Services

          Guvf yvar vagragvbanyyl yrsg oynax .................

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