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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Message-ID: <1395@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 12:12:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.173031.23094@sugar.hackercorp.com> <61@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun18.125532.3766@NCoast.ORG> <1991Jun19.201632.1386@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jun19.201632.1386@milton.u.washington.edu> stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) writes:
>In article <1991Jun18.125532.3766@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
>>	Sounds just like the Amiga to me. I can drag an icon onto the icon
>>editor's window and it will know to load the icon up. And the "icon alias"
>>sounds just like the "Leave Out" option of WorkBench too.
>
>No, aliases are pointers to files, folders, or disks.  For example, I can
>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
>is to put an alias to a file on floppy onto a mounted volume.  When the alias
>is used, the system prompts for the correct volume to be mounted.

:-)  :-)
You just explained how "Leave out" works on the Amiga OS 2.0! Now I
guess, it's really not alike, but perhaps identical? :-)

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