Re: NSFileManager and aliases
Re: NSFileManager and aliases
- Subject: Re: NSFileManager and aliases
- From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:48:29 -0700
Well, as it stands you can have an alias and a symlink in the same
file. But an odd thing that people need to realize for OS X is
aliases seem to store the icon of the file they point to. This
APPEARS to cause a problem with Icon Services if the alias is renamed
and the original file is a package.
Ack, at 4/16/02, Thomas Lachand-Robert said:
Now a suggestion (fell free to comment, eventually we could file a
feature request on this):
I think a useful improvement to aliases would be to have them
recognized as symbolic links by the Unix tools. If I understand well
the machinery, it should not be very difficult:
-- Aliases doesn't need to have data fork (I don't know if they
have, but usually they don't, they appear as 0-sized files in the
terminal.
-- Symbolic links doesn't have any resource fork, but the path is
coded somewhere in their data fork.
So a simple solution would be to have all aliases copying the path
they already store inside their data fork, in addition to their
resource fork.
--
Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
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Please include any previous correspondence in replies, it helps me
remember what we were talking about. Thanks.
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