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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Upgrades
Message-ID: <52902@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 May 91 09:22:29 GMT
References: <52814@apple.Apple.COM> <FRANCIS.91May14232330@arthur.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
|*WHY* [do aliases] take so much space?

Geez, guys. You people wanna complain about EVERYTHING.

Do This:

1. Turn on File Sharing on your Mac. Do all the setup junk.
2. Make an alias to your hard disk.
3. Copy the alias to a floppy.
4. CHANGE THE NAME OF YOUR HARD DISK.
5. Go to another mac on the network, in another appletalk zone.
6. Slot the disk and double-click the alias.
7. Type your "owner's password" and USE YOUR HARD DRIVE OVER THE NET.

Cool or what?

Drop a file on an alias of a folder. The right thing happens.
Rename a file and alias it. The right thing happens.
Put an alias in a program, give the program to everyone on your net.
They can all use the alias to find the file, even if the file is
changed or moves.

I repeat: Cool or WHAT?


|Why just here? Distribution reasons, or does Sys7 include "sensitive
|technologies" that the government's weasels don't want leaving the
|country?

System 7 should be the fastest system to be released "internationally"
EVER, in something like >50 versions. This takes time. Of course, they
coulda held up the US version to wait until ALL THE OTHER ONES were
ready. OK with you?

bill coderre
more than ever before