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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why aren't 7.0 aliases real?
Message-ID: <12973@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 91 16:17:13 GMT
References: <1991Apr7.221543.3719@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr8.013825.13118@netcom.COM> <1991Apr8.174933.10818@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Apr8.174933.10818@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
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>How many applications can deal with their 'Preferences' or 'Settings' files
>being aliases?

What would be the point?  Preferences files are already stashed in a special
folder and the only thing you ever do with them is throw them away.

>MacTCP's dnr looks for itself in the system folder; will it accept an alias?

The code to access the dnr is linked into every application, I believe.  So
you could resolve the alias if you wanted to.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
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