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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 'link'ing a la U*IX in DOS
Message-ID: <1752@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 4 Jun 90 23:48:59 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.193543.13903@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1990Jun3.054243.11711@druid.uucp> <8153@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1990Jun4.025220.2149@druid.uucp>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
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In article <1990Jun4.025220.2149@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>>>You can't do it with DOS.  Get a Unix system.

What about a TSR program that monitors the file operations of INT 21h
(such as: find-first, find-next, open file .....) and whenever there is
a request for a file-operation, the TSR could open (using the old file
system) a special file in (say) the root.  This file would be build in a
special way (indexed) and if the TSR found a match in that file, it
could substitute the real file for the requested.

In short, you would have one file (in the root) that would serve as some
kind of a 'link map'.  You would have that TSR to control those links
and the advantage of this method is that 'chkdsk' would not hickup on it
since there are no 'crossed-clusters'.

(Any volanteers out there?  :-)

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