On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 12:23:41PM +0000, Howard Schwartz wrote:
>
> I know of no dos TSR that reproduces the Unix ln -s name file ability in
> dos for all three of reading, writing, and executing files.
>
> What does this have to do with batch files and disk space? It is well
> known that in the FAT16 style partitioning a little batch file of,
> say 100 bytes takes up a minimum of one cluster, perhaps 4000 bytes on
> the disk -- thus wasting a lot of space.
>
Another solution (I couldn't live without) is to use aliases,
a feature of 4DOS. This way I didn't have to create batch files all
the time. I've had some tiny batch files, too, taking up cluster
space I didn't want to waste.
What could be a drawback is memory usage though I never noticed
much.
Your assembly language post is interesting. Maybe repost your
message in the various DOS newsgroups and see what others think.
Y'know, some of the big Unixes (Unices?) don't even support
symbolic links. Being so used to them in Linux I'd have a hard
time without them.
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