Executables don't work on ext filesystems.

Symlinks work fine. So as long as you're just moving the directory that stores the WAD file(s), and not any executables, a symlink will work fine.

I use symlinks all the time, and my installer for Formido creates a symlink for the data directory.

As long as there's no executables (or file ownership issues, which aren't generally a problem), you're fine with symlinks.

Good work with the hex editing tho. Takes me back a bit.

I remember that there was a program that captured audio/video from a section on your computer screen (can't remember what the program was called), and I wanted to use it to capture a video, but it overlayed this message (since I hadn't bought it; this was a while ago.. :-). But I noticed that the spaces in between the words in the message weren't blocking out anything, so I hex edited the executable and made all the text in the message spaces. :-) Worked great.

And WAY before that, I had to hex edit F18 interceptor on my Amiga, because it expected the game to be on "df0" (disk floppy 0), so I changed "df0" to "f18" and created an alias for "f18" to a location on my hard disk.

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