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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Aliases (was Re: # of files)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.175934.10435@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 17:59:34 +1200
- References: <BtLr5D.Hy7@iat.holonet.net> <YORK.92Aug26160243@oakland-hills.lucid.com> <1992Aug27.143819.11599@sunfs3.Camex.COM> <1992Aug27.220740.2524@qualcomm.com>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Aug27.220740.2524@qualcomm.com>, sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner) writes:
- > kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) writes:
- >>No, Firstclass does not circumvent the file system, aliases are not
- >>implemented by the file system--which is what annoys the makers of
- >>Firstclass. I think they wish they were on a Unix box. To use
- >>aliases would require extra irksome work on their part.
-
- Yeah, but if they were on a UNIX box, they wouldn't have proper aliases--
- just those crude symbolic link thingies...
-
- > Sounds like they have an Attitude. Of course, they're not the
- > only ones. I can think of one particular development system that ALSO
- > doesn't have a clue about aliases. It's called MPW, and the company
- > is some fruit name. Ah, well, they probably weren't Apple Partners, and
- > didn't get any warning of what was going to happen in System 7. :-)
-
- MPW 3.3 has some alias support in it. Not that I've ever made use of it:
- I have this little drag-and-drop utility application that constructs path
- names for me, that I can just paste into an MPW command line, and of course
- in this case all the alias resolution is handled automatically by the Finder.
-
- > Aliases are implemented in an unpleasant way for any app that doesn't
- > just use standard file, and it's no particular shame that aliases
- > aren't supported in such apps. Of course, as the years wear on, one's
- > patience wears thinner.
-
- I was one of the many who wondered why aliases weren't embedded more deeply
- into the existing File Manager. But then aliases are fairly complex things,
- and resolving them could take a lot of work. Should you automatically follow
- aliases to aliases? Imagine if a folder had within it aliases to files
- on several floppies; just building a list for SFGetFile (which would involve
- a lot of _GetCatInfo calls) could cause a whole *heap* of "Please Insert the
- Disk" requests!
-
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