Re: Of course we can trust Apple for our next OS!

["Earl Malmrose" <malmrose@nospam.jetcity.com>]

Rick Hatton <hattonr@aug.com> wrote in article
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> Earl Malmrose <earl.malmrose@nospam.sierra.com> wrote:
> 
> > No. Moving a Windows shortcut to another drive doesn't break the
shortcut.
> > Only moving the original file does. Since you can't move the original
file
> > to another drive in MacOS, you can't break an alias in the same way. So
one
> > reason Mac aliases are better is because the file system is more
limited.
> 
> You can move files all over the place and teh alias will automatically
> change to reflect the move. You cant move a file at all in W95 without
> causing problems. Try it on both a Mac and a W95 machine.

Moving a file on the same drive, will not break either a Mac alias or a
Win95 shortcut. You cannot move files across drives on a Mac. You can only
copy them.