Re: A+/InCider article: ACK!

[unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <BxyyC9.2w3@news.iastate.edu> Harold Byron Bouma,
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.

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.

yeah this is going to be formatted all crappily. I've set the auto wrap width
in the 
program I post with, it still screws up the messages.