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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 20 Jun 91 01:10:28 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.201632.1386@milton.u.washington.edu> stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) writes:
>No, aliases are pointers to files, folders, or disks.  For example, I can

Like links?  Like assigns?

>create aliases to Word and leave them on my desktop, in an applications folder,
>and under the Apple menu.  No matter where the real Word application goes,
>the aliases will be treated as if they were the application.  One cool use

We got links in 2.0, we've had assigns since the dawn of time.

Of course (giggle) I've been doing things like this for awhile -- one of
the VERY few advantages of having icons separate from programs.

Now why did all of this get started?

Oh, _now_ I understand the tickets to Texas and the billyclub....  ;)

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
	2.0 :: "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Also try c186br@holden, c260-ay@ara and c184-ap@torus