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From: xiaoy@bullet.ecf (XIAO  Yan)
Subject: Symbolic link in MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1991May29.153829.8742@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu>
Sender: xiaoy@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO  Yan)
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 15:38:29 GMT

A otherwise accident freshes my dream of symblic link of fils in MS-DOS.
(much like under unix 'ln -s').

When I used chkdsk and I was told two files were cross linked to the
same claster.  These two files are on the same disk but in different
directories and orginally they are different files.  After I saw this 
message I found that, indeed, these two files contained the same 
contents.

I recalled that this happened after I used PCTOOLS to undelete one of the
files.

So I assume that it is feasible to have symbolic link on MS-DOS.  Along
the same line, it should also be possible to have cross directory rename
command (rather than 'copy-delete' scheme which sometimes is hard to do).
I am no expert in FAT stuff.

Any comment?

Xiao