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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Sys7.0 aliases and MPW
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Date: 2 Apr 91 14:09:05 GMT
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In article <1902@camex.COM> kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) writes:
>7.0 aliases are not part of the file system, they are higher level
>things, figments of the imaginations of Finder and Standard File--and
>any other code that likes the same drugs.

Sounds like how folders were under MFS, and file comments are now.
You just can't keep a good idea down, I guess.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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