Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!samsung!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!inews!groovy!mhoeffli From: mhoeffli@groovy.intel.com (Michael Hoefflinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: "Symbolic links" with the finder? Summary: A System 7.0 option... Keywords: System 7.0, links, Finder Message-ID: <2173@inews.intel.com> Date: 25 May 90 22:06:54 GMT References: <1433@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <6289@gollum.twg.com> <25054@netnews.upenn.edu> <2456@network.ucsd.edu> <1990May24.164053.15352@siia.mv.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Reply-To: mhoeffli@groovy.UUCP (Michael Hoefflinger) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: Santa Clara Microprocessor Division, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 26 In article <1990May24.164053.15352@siia.mv.com> drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick) writes: > >At any rate, any modern filesystem should provide some kind >of efficient aliasing for files, and perhaps even directories. > From memory of a demo of System 7.0 given at Purdue University: I believe that System 7.0 will support aliasing of files via the usage of a file that more or less just contains the actual location of the file being aliased. This would allow things like NeXT's application dock to be implemented very handily. I'm sure there are 1XE31 other things you can do with it that I'm just not creative enough to come up with. Perhaps commentary from Apple would result in a clearer picture... ======== cat flames.txt > /dev/null/ ========================================= _ _ _ | Doing the right thing and ' ) ) ) / mhoeffli@mipos2.intel.com | doing things right - Kawasaki / / / o /_ _ INTEL, Santa Clara, CA | Grace Under Pressure - Hemingway / ' (_<_/ <_ =========================================