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From: eam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Emilio Agustin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Iconic links??
Message-ID: <813@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 4 May 89 16:24:04 GMT
Reply-To: eam@uk.ac.ed.aipna (Emilio Agustin)
Organization: Dept. of AI, Edinburgh, UK
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Hi there,

I was wondering if anybody in the net has any idea on how to 
make a kind of link to an application (in the UNIX(TM) style) or
to any file in general. 

The idea is to have a file of minimal size in the desktop (or wherever)
pointing to file. When you double-click on it should behave exactly as
if you double-click on the linked file.

I would like to have links to the most used applications/files on the
desktop for easy access. However, I can think of several uses
for such a thing (avoiding duplications of text files, for example).

Is this a cracy idea? Is it possible? How do I do it?

Any ideas will be very much appreciated.


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