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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Iconic links??
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Date: 5 May 89 17:52:47 GMT
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In article <2849@cps3xx.UUCP> rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>  Until Apple puts it in the system software, you're probably out of
>luck :-( .

According to the preview in MacWeek, System 7.0 will have a feature called
"Aliases" which, as far as I can tell, are iconic symbolic links.

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