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From: weiss@babbage.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: An idea for an extension
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Date: 4 Jun 91 06:33:39 GMT
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I just thought of something.  I recall having read in MacUser that an idea
for an extension would be to trash all aliases of a file when the file is
deleted.  As an extension of that extension, it would also be interesting
to have it so that if you REPLACE that file with another, the aliases that
used to point to the old file would then point to the new one.  Here's an
example:
You've got MSWord 4.0, and an alias or two pointing to it.  Now, Microsoft,
to remain competitive, releases 5.0.  You upgrade, and stick 5.0 where
your old 4.0 was, overwriting the old Word with the new Word.  The aliases
that used to point to MSWord 4.0 would now point to MSWord 5.0.

Whaddaya guys think?  I don't yet have enough knowledge to play with this
sort of an extension, but it sounds useful to me.
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