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From: gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (John R. Gersh)
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Subject: Re: Iconic links??
Summary: Somewhat similar functionality with OnCue
Keywords: Finder, Icons, OnCue, files
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Date: 5 May 89 21:56:46 GMT
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> [Much discussion of icons transparently linking to files elsewhere,
>  Unix links, and System 7.0 aliasing]


While it involves nowhere near the same mechanism, and only some of
the functionality described, OnCue provides some of the features
discussed in this thread.

OnCue allows you to configure a popup menu, available anywhere,
containing the names of your favorite applications. Each item may have a
submenu containing selected documents for that application.

So, wherever in the file hierarchy the application is, and wherever
the documents are, you can run it or open them at any time.
Configuring the menus is extremely easy; it is no problem to set up a
document set for a particular work session.

What you can't do, of course, is have directories that oppear to have
the same file in more than one place. For now though, I don't know how
I ever lived without OnCue.


						- John Gersh


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