Re: A+/InCider article: ACK!

[hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)]

Matt Ackeret writes

> hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu writes:
> >	Well, yes, it was a grave mistake to overlook the HFS FST, its one of  
> >GS/OS most underrated features, But I think Mr. Kreizer is overlooking one  
> >major delima. Aliasing and shared folders really only benifits users who
> access  
> >a device over a network. And thats the main reason why Apple put them in
> System  
> 
> Not eeeeeeven.  Obviously that's true about shared folders, but your
> statement about aliases certainly isn't.  I have zillions of aliases on
> my desktop, even an alias of a folder to aliases to other stuff (so I don't
> have to clutter the desktop enough).  This type of thing is very common
> because the Mac literally MOVES your applications when you put them on the
> desktop so it can't find its data files. I have aliases in the Apple menu  
too.

	Yes, which is why the finder's aliasing for folders on the desktop is  
better. Which do you prefer?

> Aliases ARE useful for network things (I sure wish the damn things could
> remember your password for servers though), but that's certainly not only
> when they're useful.
> 
> To bring the GS in the picture, I think aliases would be useful on the GS too
> for *similar* reasons.  Even though the GS doesn't actually move files when
> you put them on a desktop, I'd probably put aliases on the desktop instead of
> the actual files, so if I do happen to open up the folder where a desktop
> file 'lives', I will actually see it in the window, and the alias will be on
> the desktop.
> 

	A main reason why people want to use aliases for normal things on the  
Mac/GS is that finding things in the finder takes a while. WHo wants to dig  
through 6-7 folders to get to an application? This can also hold true on the  
GS. However, I'm sure that when they were desinging System 6, it may have came  
up and discarded because there was more important features and functions to add  
to the OS. Its not that I don't feel that they are important, its just that  
there is only a finite amount of time that the Apple II team has to work with,  
and there are more important things that they need to address first. Perhaps  
one day it might be added, but don't hold your breath right now over it.


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