In the real-old days, there was CP/M 2.2 & a new, flashier CLI came out, called ZCPR3,
which amongst other things, had "named directories". all really useful stuff.
Later on, when the world of GUI had taken over, somewhat, some of us, still prefered the old CLI ways.
& so, JPsoft catered for our needs with 4DOS for the win9x series & later with 4NT for the post millennium O/Ss.
both have a 'Enhanced' CLI that the ms-dos CLI didn't have.
Both these products have now been placed into public domain / freeware, due to their vintage.