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Missing the point of this hint
Authored by: klktrk on Dec 01, '06 11:00:32AM

The point of this hint is not to replace aliases with symbolic links. obviously you could just make a choice to never make aliases and always create symbolic links instead, in which case this hint would be moot.

The author is trying to address the more common scenario where you are working in the shell on a machine where aliases are already existing (likely in any Mac OS X environment where the finder is being used).

Sure you can just try to never use the alias functionality of the Finder (though it is in fact in many ways superior to symbolic links), but if you want to use aliases AND be able to navigate them in the shell, what do you do? This is the issue the hint is trying to address, and does so quite well.



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