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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Suggestions for aliases in System 7
Message-ID: <1991May1.195054.4850@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 1 May 91 19:50:54 GMT
References: <1985@camex.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I wrote,
>This one is actually a hole in the current 7.0 Finder.  If I want an alias
>on a writeable volume for a file on a read-only volume, there's no way to
>get it from the Finder right now.  Those of us who have grown dependent
>on CD ROMs of late would like to see this one RSN.

From article <1985@camex.COM>, by kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg):
> ...attempting to make an alias of an icon on a locked floppy will offer
> instead to put the alias on the desktop.  I have not personally
> witnessed this with a local CD-ROM (those FC versions of 7.0 are hard
> to come by in every hardware configuration), but I bet it also works
> by now.

Thanks, Kent, this changed between b4 and f2: what you report is also true
for CD ROM volumes (as you might expect).

Oh, and thanks, oh unsung late but not too late Finder engineer who put thi
in...

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=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com