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From: leonardr@sv.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: SYSTEM 7 and Mount Volume XFCN (was Mount Volume XFCN)
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.210413.9752@svc.portal.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 21:04:13 GMT
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In article <55302@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
> From: johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
> Subject: Re: SYSTEM 7 and Mount Volume XFCN (was Mount Volume XFCN)
> Date: 3 Jun 91 04:06:28 GMT
> Organization: Univ. of Delaware, CCM
> 
> In article <1991Jun2.182410.7623@svc.portal.com>, leonardr@sv.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes...
> 
> >	There is no way to mount AShare volumes in HC2.1, nor will you easily be
> > able to get the current XCMD to work with 7.0.  The problem is simple - the
> > XCMD expects to find the Appleshare 'extension' in the System Folder, however
> > under 7 it is in the Extensions folder, therefore it can't find the stuff it
> > needs to work.  One solution may be to put Appleshare into the System Folder,
> > but then the Chooser wont find it....
> 
> If this is the only problem, then leave it in the System Folder and alias
> it to the Extensions folder.  Or the other way around .... 
> 
	Although this sounds like a good idea in concept, it won't help.  If you 
leave it in Extensions and alias into System, the XCMD won't work since it 
doesn't know anything about aliases and can't find the original.  On the other 
hand, if you put it in the System Folder, the XCMD will/should work, but the 
Chooser won't find it.
	Aliases don't happen automatically, programmers have to support them!

Leonard

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