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- From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
- Subject: Re: Removing the "alias" when making aliases
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.070146.19571@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Keywords: alias
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- References: <14604@borg.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 07:01:46 GMT
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- brandt@currituck.cs.unc.edu (#66 Andrew Brandt) writes:
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- >This was posted a few days ago:
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- >| >I want to change that annoying string " alias" that is appended
- >| >whenever you call the Make Alias command. Anyone know where that string is
- >| >located. Thanks in advance.
- >|
- >| Finder Resource STR 20502
- >|
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- >I edited this resource. It is indeed the word "alias" but it is not
- >the " alias" that is appended to aliases when they are created. It is
- >actually the string "alias" that appears when you, for example, view
- >files by type.
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- >Does anyone the resource that contains the "alias" that gets stuck at
- >the end of newly created aliases.
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- >Any slick programs out there that will prevent new aliases from being named
- >`filename alias'?
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- It's in the Finder, STR# 20500, string #1. I changed mine to Option-A.
-