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From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: "Startup" documents
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Date: 7 Mar 91 16:33:14 GMT
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JohnT says:

	In UNIX land, this would just be a link (ln).  If, for example,
	I have a Lightspeed C (3.0) application that lives in a
	development folder, how can I link to this with a "Startup"
	file in different folders where I want to use it?  It really
	wastes disk space copying the application everywhere I want to
	use it.

System 7 will include "aliases" that point to other files, very much
symbolic links. You'll also have the possibility of putting aliases
in the menu.

As regards startup files, you could create an empty document with
your application's signature as creator. When you double-click it,
your application gets launched (and, presumably, opens the empty
document...)

Happy hacking,

						h+@nada.kth.se
						Jon W{tte
"The IM-IV file manager chapter documents zillions of calls, all of which
seem to do almost the same thing and none of which seem to do what I want
them to do."  --  Juri Munkki in comp.sys.mac.programmer