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- From: sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
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- Subject: Re: Aliases (was Re: # of files)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.131941.19238@qualcomm.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:19:41 GMT
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- ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
- >Yeah, but if they were on a UNIX box, they wouldn't have proper aliases--
- >just those crude symbolic link thingies...
-
- It's nice that aliases can cause volume mounts, no question.
-
- Other than that, I don't buy Apple's arguments about how wonderful
- aliases are. The choice, in particular, to prefer directory ids (something
- the user can neither see nor control) to pathnames (full or relative,
- UNIX gives you your choice) strikes me as unfortunate.
-
- Anybody who has ever written a mac program that has to deal with files
- except in a standard file context understands just how insane the Mac
- filesystem is--Cub scouts everywhere should be glad that the filesystem
- doesn't have a crawl space. Aliases are allowing just a little of that
- madness to show.
-
- UNIX symlinks with a mount capability would have been cleaner, IMHO.
- --
- Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
- Yes, I'm still working on Eudora and it's still free.
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