From: cjeffery@optima.UUCP (Clinton Jeffery) Subject: Re: Symbolic links to DOS filesystem?? Date: 17 Feb 1992 01:47:00 GMT
From article <1992Feb16.220551.3524@wam.umd.edu>, by joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman):
> How difficult would it be to allow special symbolic links to files in
> a DOS partition, a la mtools?
How hard would it be to let symbolic links refer to piped commands, e.g
ln -s "|mtype c:/tex/fonts/foo.pk" foo.pk
The "|" character is supposed to tell the filesystem what to do with this
kind of link when it gets opened, disallow certain file modes, etc.
This would give a fairly crude DOS access as a trivial side effect of a
more general mechanism. Of course, I am not offering to implement it...
not until I have a Linux system... ;-)
Clint Jeffery, U. of Arizona Dept. of Computer Science
cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu -or- {noao allegra}!arizona!cjeffery