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From: philip@Minnie.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder 7.0 suggestion
Message-ID: <1990Jul7.212018.4194@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Jul 90 21:20:18 GMT
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In article <956.2695f9be@waikato.ac.nz>, ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> I like the "Apple menu folder" idea. Just one suggestion: do the names
> of aliases in the menu have to be in italics? It makes sense to italicise
> the names of the actual file icons, but is this information relevant
> in the menu?

I'd vote for keeping them italicized at all times. Symbolic links in
unix are great when they work, but (for example) if the file system
one points to is unmounted, it can cause errors that are hard to
track down. If you always _know_ something is an alias, you are
more likely to think of trying to track down this kind of problem.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu