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aliases not equal links
Authored by: jimr on Oct 07, '01 11:40:18PM

I have found a number of cases where a finder alias was not behaving as expected.
the thing to do in this case is drop into the terminal and

ln -s {file you want to alias} {name of the alias}

curly brackets added for clarity

then if you ls -alF in that directory, you should see
something in this format:
permissions date size myaliasname->/the/directory/path/tothefile

to finish the syllogism

all aliases are not links but all links are aliases.



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