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From: chuq@Apple.COM (The Bounty Hunter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: "Symbolic links" with the finder?
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Date: 5 May 90 03:59:23 GMT
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jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Lawrence Haferman) writes:

>I have all my applications in a folder called "Applications."

>How can I launch a given application when I am deep
>down in some folder far far away from "Applications"?

Disktop Launch (part of Disktop 3.0) or OnCue will do it. Both are INITs.
Another option is to keep a template/empty data file for the appropriate
application handy. Double-click on it and it brings up the application. A
nice touch of templates is that you can (for most decent apps) set them up
with all the normal options that you can't otherwise set.

>I really would like is some sort of mechanism like
>a symbolic link provides in the Unix environment,
>ie create a link to an application in the "Applications"
>folder.

>Know what I mean?

Yup. It's called file aliases. It's in system 7.0, coming relatively soon to
a theater or drive-in near you.

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