John Carlson <yottz...@gmail.com> writes: > We may want a program which unfortunately has a path to a shortcut to > still work if the files they point to are moved.
The question is what problem you're tring to solve. Symlinks and hard links solve problems for users that manage a small number of files, that are able to keep the whole file hierarchy in their head (ask any cli unix user where a given file is, and he will give you the path leading directly to it without much ls-ing). The Mac aliases solve the problem of having icons on the desktop representing files left in their original directories, while at the same time letting the user move the icon from one folder to another without breaking the programs. But these solutions are successful, in the situations they are designed for. (I don't know why fixing shortcut is needed, given those situations). (The problem here might be that users can't manage their files competently; but at least, it's their stuff; as long as they don't have too many files (as long as they only have 800 KB floppies), it's ok). -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
