On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:48 AM, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh! - I thought the Mac Alias was a symbolic link. What's the difference? > Well from wikipedia it basically says that a symlink is just a text file which contains the relative or absolute path to another file/folder/app. If that file/folder/app is moved then the link is broken. A Mac alias contains various data, and along with some OS algorithms, if the file/folder/app is moved the link is not necessarily broken - although we all know that it is still possible to do so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(Mac_OS) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
