Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Why aren't 7.0 aliases real? Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 21:06:47 GMT References: <1991Apr7.221543.3719@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr8.013825.13118@netcom.COM> <1991Apr8.174933.10818@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 25 dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >In article <1991Apr8.013825.13118@netcom.COM> james@netcom.COM (James L. Paul) writes: >>I'm asking out of curiosity. My experience with aliases sounds different >>from yours. I'm running 7.0FC1. I'd appreciate an example where the illusory >>nature of aliases can be demostrated. >How many applications can deal with their 'Preferences' or 'Settings' files >being aliases? Am I missing something here? Prefs and Settings go in their respective folders in the system folder, right? Why would you ever want to use an alias for one? >MacTCP's dnr looks for itself in the system folder; will it accept an alias? >I'd imagine the answers are none (except for those few sys7 aware apps) and no. >-- >Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office >Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu " I feel a lot more like I do now that I did before I got here " - can't remember who