Re: Finder alias vs ln -s
Re: Finder alias vs ln -s
- Subject: Re: Finder alias vs ln -s
- From: David Green <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:15:27 -0500
"Jonas Maebe" <email@hidden> writes:
> On 19 aug 2004, at 11:39, Denis Mottet wrote:
>
>> I discovered that I cannot "follow" aliases made with OSX Finder when
>> using X11 applications...
>> Obviously, Finder aliases are not recognised as symlinks in unix X11
>> or terminal context.
>
> That's because they aren't symlinks, they work quite differently (e.g.,
> they can still find the document they point to after that document has
> been moved to somewhere else). They are just regular files.
>
>> Has anyone a workaround ?
>
> If you want symlinks instead of aliases, you have to make them on the
> command line. Afaik there is no way to have the Finder make symlinks.
> Supporting aliases in standard unix tools would require changing them
> to use native Mac OS X api's instead of standard unix api's (after all,
> it's perfectly possible that you want to open the alias file itself for
> reading).
http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/symboliclinker.html seems to still work.
There are a few others as well.
Dave
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David G. Green email@hidden
UAB Electrical and Computer Engineering Birmingham, AL USA
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