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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Sys7.0 aliases and MPW
Message-ID: <250@claris.com>
Date: 30 Mar 91 03:47:11 GMT
References: <1991Mar29.190809.25417@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:

>In article <1991Mar29.144130.25920@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> 
>dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>> I guess this is old news, but you mean that system 7 aliases require
>> cooperation from my application?
>> 
>> Surrealism is alive and well, and living in the Macintosh filesystem...

>Both the Finder and the Standard File Package understand aliases. This 
>covers 99% of the relevant cases, so it's not such a big deal. MPW will 
>understand them too in the near future, I'm sure.

>Long live surrealism!

You should remember that one of the things that MPW does is install an
"alternate file system" that treats its windows as files.  Since it isn't
dealing with the "standard" file system, it probably needs to do something
special to support aliases in the alternate filesystem.

However, if you are mucking in the filesystem yourself rather than going
through the Standard File package, you will need to call ResolveAlias
yourself when the file is an alias.

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