Yes it seems to do this albeit I have not tested it. But ln -s commands are 
exactly what is needed and according to the description this is what you need 
with some GUI.

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Andreas
 

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On 20/Apr/2010, at 17:19 , Jung-Tsung Shen wrote:

> Timothée, Fischlin, and Simon,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Simon Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> The solution I use is Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com ). I have my complete
>> personal tree (~/Library/texmf) on my Dropbox and symlinks* on the different
>> machines point to it. It's perfect for this setup.
>> *A symlink is something like an alias, but not quite the same. It also
>> refers to a location on your hard drive, but comes from the Unix side.
>> Symlinks are created in the shell, aliases in the Finder. The main
>> difference between symlinks and aliases is that a symlink is completely
>> transparent, meaning that the file system handles the symlink exactly like
>> the place it refers to which is not the case with aliases.
>> 
> 
> Thank you all for the very helpful suggestions. I have looked into
> your suggestions, and figure that using the Dropbox might be a better
> option for me. I have registered at Dropbox. Something I'd like to
> know more is about the symlink, as I certainly do not want to put the
> physical files into the Dropbox folder. As Simon pointed out, the
> alias might not be the best solution; I however do not know how to use
> the shell to create a symlink. Does the following freeware help to
> achieve the same task?
> 
> http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> JT
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