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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 aliases and grouping
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Date: 29 May 91 02:14:47 GMT
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In article <1991May28.224445.29017@amd.com>, ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes...
> 
>same drive and have a bunch of inits in the 6.0.7 system folder with aliases
>in the 7.0 system folder. Even though the inits work if they are copied into
>the 7.0 folder, the aliases do not work. Is this the expected operation?

Yes. I asked this same question not too long ago. The upshot is that aliases
 are resolved by the SF dialogs and by the Finder. The INIT loading mechanism
 does not resolve aliases. As a point of information, INITs load from the
 Extensions folder, Control Panels folder, and the System folder, in that
 order. Within folders, they load alphabetically.

>I've also found that grouping an application with a document and double-
>clicking on one of them does not open the document in the selected application

Yes, I've noticed that too. The replacement mechanism is to drag the file(s)
 on top of the application (until the application's icon highlights). The
 types of files an application can handle are I think determined by it's BNDL
 resource. I hope someone else can elaborate on that.

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