how to make one file in repository link-to / check-out-to another location?

Greetings, surely this is a one-line answer, but here's my situation:

I have a repository with a file (file.txt) in one place (trunk/foo).

I would like file.txt to appear in another place (say, trunk/bar). So
what I do is symbolic-link file.txt from foo to bar, and check in that
link, and all is well.

However, another user wants to check out bar and have file.txt in it,
but does NOT want to check out foo. Thus when the user checks out bar,
she gets a link to foo, and that's not good.

I guess I'd like to check out file.txt in numerous places and whenever
changes are made to it, they are reflected in the original
foo/file.txt. Is this possible?

"externals" appeared to be the right way to go, but that seemed more
like an external repository, and I need an internal one.

Hopefully this is a simple operation. Thanks!

JDO

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