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From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: An idea for an extension
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Date: 4 Jun 91 22:17:55 GMT
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weiss@babbage.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) writes:

MW> I just thought of something.  I recall having read in MacUser that an idea
MW> for an extension would be to trash all aliases of a file when the file is
MW> deleted.  As an extension of that extension, it would also be interesting
MW> to have it so that if you REPLACE that file with another, the aliases that
MW> used to point to the old file would then point to the new one.  

    Instead of having six or seven extensions for all the possible permutations
(eg: delete all aliases referring to this file; redirect all aliases to another
file with the same name; and so on), why not just have a utility which FINDS
all aliases to a certain file, and then you can decide whether to trash 'em 
or whatnot.

    Note that you may not have to develop a special extension to do this if you
just give helpful names to your aliases. For example, any alias to MS Word 
could have "MSW" in its name. (You could even let your alias to MS Word be 
called "Microsoft Word alias", which would remove all doubt.)


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