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From: weiss@curtiss.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
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Subject: Re: SYSTEM 7 and Mount Volume XFCN (was Mount Volume XFCN)
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Date: 4 Jun 91 05:38:55 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.210413.9752@svc.portal.com> leonardr@sv.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>In article <55302@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
>> 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!

OK, let's assume that you can't access it through an alias (but shouldn't
aliases be handled by System, and not by Finder???).  The next logical,
albeit painful, step would be to have two copies.  One in Extensions, and
one in System Folder.  If they truly are identical, then it shouldn't matter
if there are two of them, should it?

Of course, it would be a major pain to have to start keeping two copies of
things around (yuck).  I can just see hard drives being filled with real
duplicates of megabytes of files, simply because aliases aren't supported...
*sigh*
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