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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: An idea for an extension
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Date: 4 Jun 91 16:32:02 GMT
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In article <2999@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>, weiss@babbage.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) writes:
|> 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.
I think it would be really useful if you could search for aliases
using the Finder's Find command. It would also be useful if list
views could show the owner, and sort by owner. I think these are
more generally useful featues, and could be used to do what the
MacUser article wants.
|> 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.
|> sort of an extension, but it sounds useful to me.

No extension needed. Just rename the new MS Word so it has
exactly the same name / directory path as the old one,
and the alias mechanism will find it - as long as you have really
removed the original. Once all your aliases have seen the new
name, you can rename it or even move it.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu