Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!europa.asd.contel.com!wlbr!lonex.radc.af.mil!blackbird.afit.af.mil!udecc.engr.udayton.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!wolfman.cis.ohio-state.edu!francis From: francis@wolfman.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Alias resolution: right or wrong? Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 14:11:45 GMT References: <1991May29.202307.3024@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <48263@bcsaic.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 37 In-reply-to: lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP's message of 30 May 91 14:16:47 GMT In article <48263@bcsaic.UUCP> lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum) writes: In article <1991May29.202307.3024@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Eric.J.Baumgartner@dartmouth.edu (Eric J. Baumgartner) writes: : You make the call. : : I had a file, call it Foo, in folder Bar. I made an alias of Foo : called Foo.alias. Then I wanted to back up Foo, so I dragged Foo from : Bar into a folder called Bar.Backup. Yup, forgot to hold down the : option key... damn! So now Foo is in Bar.Backup. OK, no problem. I : option-drag Foo back into Bar. So now: original Foo is in Bar.Backup, : copy of Foo (also called Foo) is in Bar. : : Well, I guess this was what I wanted (it corrected my mistake :-), but : I don't think this is right. What do you all think? This behavior seems ok, but the real issue is what happens if you do this: create Foo in folder Bar create Foo.alias move (not copy) Foo into folder Bar.Backup Actually, append: copy (not move) Foo into folder Bar to your list of activities, and that's what the original poster did. I would expect create foo in folder Bar create foo.alias foo.alias points to Bar:foo move foo to folder Bar.Backup foo.alias points to Bar.Backup:foo copy foo to folder Bar foo.alias points to Bar.Backup:foo to be the sequence of actions, and the results of those actions. -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu