From: Steve Baumgarten <sbb@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Symbolic instead of hard link as crosspost-link-function?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:19:34 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199707231519.LAA02810@panix3.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ivk9ihakul.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu>
For what it's worth, aliases in MacOS work much better than symbolic
links. For one thing, you can move the thing that's pointed to and
the alias can still be resolved. You can also rename the the thing
that's pointed to -- and still the alias is resolved.
You can create an alias of a remote server volume, copy it to a floppy
disk, take the floppy down to the hall to another Mac (on the same
network, of course), put it in, double-click it, and mount the volume
there.
The Mac is in need of many, many improvements, but aliases are cool
and really work much better than symbolic links.
Steve Baumgarten
sbb@panix.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-07-23 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-18 1:02 Mikael Djurfeldt
1997-07-18 13:51 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1997-07-18 14:22 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-07-18 15:17 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
[not found] ` <wkn2nk5drp.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-21 8:01 ` SL Baur
1997-07-21 14:53 ` William M. Perry
1997-07-21 16:26 ` Dan Schmidt
[not found] ` <wkn2ng8594.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-22 14:12 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-22 15:44 ` William M. Perry
[not found] ` <wk7mejx7ea.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-07-23 14:45 ` Michael Lamoureux
1997-07-23 15:19 ` Steve Baumgarten [this message]
1997-07-23 15:53 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-07-23 16:17 ` William M. Perry
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