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- From: Reid Ellis <rae@Alias.com>
- Subject: Re: Aliases
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.145209.8050@alias.com>
- Sender: news@alias.com (News Owner)
- Organization: Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada
- References: <1992Aug27.143819.11599@sunfs3.Camex.COM> <1992Aug27.220740.2524@qualcomm.com> <1992Aug28.175934.10435@waikato.ac.nz> <1992Aug28.131941.19238@qualcomm.com> <D88-JWA.92Aug28193753@dront.nada.kth.se>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:52:09 GMT
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- Jon W{tte <d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se> writes:
- |Aliases have room for growth. I added a special feature that
- |stores a relative path for items on the same volume as the
- |"relative" alias pointer (which has never worked too well for
- |me) and use wrapper functions to check for this, text-based,
- |relative path first and fall through to the alias manager if
- |it doesn't work.
-
- What does this give you that relative aliases don't give you? I'm not
- a big champion of aliases or anything, having wrestled with the file
- manager on several occasions, but this seems like one of their more
- straight-forward uses.
-
- Reid
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