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From: kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: "Symbolic links" with the finder?
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Date: 5 May 90 19:51:19 GMT
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In article <1433@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> 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"?
>
>I know there are a lot of launching programs out there,
>I have been using the "Disktools" DA for this, but what
>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.
>

Well, it's supposedly available in System 7.0 and it's known as "aliasing".


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