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Subject: System 7 Aliases - addendum
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Date: 14 Mar 91 21:08:57 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.203258.16538@fcom.cc.utah.edu> t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
writes:
I origionsally wrote:
>The first problem I ran into is that you can't create an Alias of a file on a
>file server if the folder is read only. 

I have since discovered that this only occurs on a NFS-mounted partition served
through a GatorBox. On a regular appleshare volume it lets you create the alias
on the desktop with handles the problem. It does the same thing for CD's and
locked disks.

Tony Jacobs
Center for Engineering Design
University of Utah
t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu