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From: jan@cancol.oz (Jan Newmarch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 'link'ing a la U*IX in DOS
Message-ID: <383@cancol.oz>
Date: 7 Jun 90 23:55:53 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.193543.13903@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1752@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
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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.

If you want to save on multiple copies of files, why not use the DOS
command APPEND to give a search path for data files? It may mean
reoorganising directories to fit the search path, but it does save
space.
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