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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Iconic links??
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Date: 4 May 89 22:08:15 GMT
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In-reply-to: eam@aipna.ed.ac.uk's message of 4 May 89 16:24:04 GMT

In article <813@aipna.ed.ac.uk> eam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Emilio Agustin) writes:

   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. 

I've done it manually, by playing around with the directory structure.
Nasty things happen, though, if one of the files is removed--there's
no clean way to remove both of them (you're almost certain to wind up
with a system error if you try).
  Until Apple puts it in the system software, you're probably out of
luck :-( .

		Anton

P.S. (to Apple people out there, or whoever else...).

  Would it be possible, in some future release of the Finder, to
support files on the desktop which are not in a top-level directory?
Some applications, for instance, look in their directory for
configuration files; I would like to keep these in a separate
directory, but I can't do this and put them on the desktop too.
  I know scanning a whole HFS volume would be time-consuming, but
would it be possible to keep, say, a resource in the Desktop file
which lists directories to search?  Keeping this up-to-date wouldn't
be too hard, and the added functionality would be nice.

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