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- TrashAlias 1.0 is a freeware system extension for System 7. In System 7, users can
- create multiple desktop icons to represent a single document, application, or folder. One
- represents the actual original, but the others, called aliases, just point to it. This feature, for
- example, allows a user to keep an application located within one folder, but be able launch it by
- double-clicking on its alias from another location, such as the desktop. The alias is actually a
- separate file created and maintained by the Finder. However, if a user deletes the original file,
- the alias file still remains. TrashAlias remedies this problem by automatically deleting any
- alias files associated with a file (or folder) when it is deleted.
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- TrashAlias runs only on Macintoshes with at least some features of System 7 installed. It
- will beep and not install any of its patches if any of these features are not present.
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- To install it, drag TrashAlias to the System folder icon and click OK to the dialog that
- appears or drag it directly into the Extensions folder. TrashAlias provides balloon help for
- its icon in the Extensions folder.
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- TrashAlias does its work on alias files created and deleted in the Finder only. When it is
- loaded for the first time, it creates a file called “TrashAlias List” in the Preferences folder.
- TrashAlias records information about new aliases files when they are created after the user
- has chosen “Make Alias” from the File menu in the Finder. The list is limited to a maximum of
- 100 aliases records. After this time, the list is rotated; that is, items are removed from the
- list on a first in first out basis. The list is also updated whenever an item in it, either an alias
- or a parent file, is emptied from the Trash. However, TrashAlias cannot keep track of
- aliases that are moved from the volume they were created on; nor can help with alias files
- orphaned before TrashAlias was installed.
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- To disable TrashAlias from loading at startup, hold down the tab key.
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- Distribution of TrashAlias must be accompanied with this documentation.
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- TrashAlias comes from
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- Maurice Volaski
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- Internet: volaski@contra.med.buffalo.edu
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- Address: 173 Princeton Ave. Apt #2, Amherst, NY 14226-5006
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