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From: leipold@eplrx7.UUCP (leipold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 & Aliases
Keywords: aliases uses file IDs
Message-ID: <748@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 12:20:10 GMT
References: <1430@intercon.UUCP> <951@cbnewsk.ATT.COM> <4453@cps3xx.UUCP> <1436@intercon.UUCP> <4468@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: leipold@eplrx7.UUCP (Walt Leipold)
Organization: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
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In article <4468@cps3xx.UUCP> rang@frith.egr.msu.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>  I would love to be able to have a folder which contained, say,
>aliases for my 8 most-frequently-used applications, and another with
>aliases for utility programs.  ... That's what I'd use aliases for:
>so I don't have to open 4 levels of folders to get at an application,
>even though that's where I want to put the application *and its files*.

Sounds like the Un*x 'PATH' variable to me...  How about some user-specified
environment variables on the Mac (like 'WordPATH', 'PaintPATH', etc.)?

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"As long as you've lit one candle,                         Walt Leipold
you're allowed to curse the darkness."       (leipolw%esvax@dupont.com)
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