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From: Juha.Hyvonen@hut.fi (Juha Hyv|nen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: An idea for an extension
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Date: 11 Jun 91 07:57:18 GMT
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In article <676362366.32@egsgate.FidoNet.Org>
Michael.Weiss@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Michael Weiss) writes:
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! 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.
!........................

Does this work:

1) delete MSWord 4.0
2) move MSWord 5.0 where v4.0 was
3) rename MSWord 5.0 to MSWord 4.0
	since aliases are (?) "soft links"
	they should now point to the renamed file, shouldn't they
4) rename it back to MSWord 5.0
	since aliases are not really (?) "soft links"
	they should still point to the file, shouldn't they
5) move it anywhere you want
	the aliases should still point to the file, shouldn't they

(I cannot test it now...)

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