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Subject: Re: How do you open Alias files in ResEdit?
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Date: 25 Jun 91 15:14:48 GMT
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In article <13368@uwm.edu>, zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steven M Kosloske) writes...
>How do you open an Alias file in ResEdit?  Here's an example of what I'm
>trying to do.  I had an alias for HyperCard, and decided to make an alias
>for the home stack instead so I could put it in a seperate folder than 
>HyperCard.  I have the home stack alias in my Apple menu, and it runs
>HyperCard fine.  Now I would like to conver the icon from a stack icon 
>to the Hypercard icon. (the stack with the hand)  When I tried to open
>the alias file in ResEdit, it would open the home stack.  Is there any
>way to open an alias that I'm not seeing?

Sounds like the practical problem could be handled by making another
alias and just pasting which a different icon into it.  But ...

To open an alias in ResEdit, choose Get File/Folder Info from the 
file menu and deselect "Alias".  The file can now be opened normally
with ResEdit.  If you want it to function as an alias again after
you are finished poking around, you'll need to reset the "Alias"
check-box.

-- Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)