SYSTEM "p menu_name"

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed May 26 10:30:01 PDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:48:45PM -0500, Bob Stockler wrote:
> | Doesn't Windows have a "ln" ability??
> 
> It has "cp" but not "ln" (as far as I know).

FAT filesystems do not, no, permit "hard" links to a file in the
fashion that Unix does; the file data is stored in the directory entry,
rather than in a separate 'inode' entry.

AFAIK, even 'symlinks' (shortcuts) are only implemented by the GUI
shell; they don't work out in a DOS window.

Cheers,
-- jra
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