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From: root@nixbbs.uucp (System Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you open Alias files in ResEdit?
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.232456.503@nixbbs.uucp>
Date: 26 Jun 91 23:24:56 GMT
References: <13368@uwm.edu>
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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
>[...]
>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?


If all you want to do is change the icon, why don't you just copy and paste
the HC icon from the Finder?  "Get Info" on your HyperCard application, and
click on the icon; it should get surrounded by a box.  Choose "Copy" from the
Edit menu, or hit CMD-C.  Now "Get Info" on the stack alias icon, and "Get
Info" on it.  Once again, click on the icon; a box should surround it.  Now
choose "Paste" from the Edit menu, or CMD-V.

If you really want to open the alias file itself, you must do it under System
6.x.  If you try under 7.0, it'll just open what the alias references.
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