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From: reichert@dino.ulowell.edu (Bastard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
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Date: 8 Jan 91 03:15:01 GMT
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In article <1991Jan1.165121.10930@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umrose05@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Rose) writes:
>Hi,
>	Does anyone out there know how to create a symbolic link in
>dos?? Basicly what I want to do is have a directory name that is just an
>alias of the real directory on another drive...Is this possible? I know it
>is in unix with the ln command, but I desperately need it in dos.
> 

The 'DOS-proper' method would be to use the 'join' command, but you'll dig
yourself some very big holes during backups, or any other recursive descent of
the directory tree(s).

From within a batch file, the use of an environment variable would probably be
expedient.

I've myself accomplished some nasty tricks by hand-chaining directory entries
together via a sector editor, but obviously, if you move things around, you
could lose the directory, or fatally corrupt the FAT tables.
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