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Re: NSFileManager and aliases
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Re: NSFileManager and aliases


  • Subject: Re: NSFileManager and aliases
  • From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:47:54 -0500

I don't get it. Why do you hate aliases so much? They offer some nice features and flexibility that symlinks do not. The only real drawback is that some API's haven't been updated to support them yet...

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 09:40 , Robert Fischer wrote:

is it possible that NSFileManager does'nt know anything about alias files?

Of course it is. Whole Cocoa, being unix-born and not MacOS-born, uses the *standard* API, whilst aliases are very proprietary stuff of HFS+. Use symbolic links instead (they work much more reasonably anyway).

Since Apple (triple alas!) pushes aliases to be used instead of symlinks, it is extremely probable that all Cocoa classes will be made alias-aware sooner or later. It will take some time though.
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