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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pageworks.com!world!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!cs!rmf
  3. From: rmf@chopin.cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer)
  4. Subject: Re: How to store file references/names ?
  5. In-Reply-To: draper@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu's message of 17 Nov 1992 16:17:14 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <RMF.92Nov17175921@chopin.cs.columbia.edu>
  7. Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
  8. Organization: Computer Science Dept., Columbia Univ.
  9. References: <1e5fvgINN835@uni-paderborn.de> <7893@lib.tmc.edu>
  10. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:59:21 GMT
  11. Lines: 8
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  13. Of course, being able to use "relative" paths in aliases (e.g., "Up 2 folders,
  14. into the folder named 'Foo'...") would solve the problem much of the time...
  15.  
  16. Unfortunately, Apple didn't put it in (even though Unix has had this for
  17. years)!
  18. --
  19.  
  20. -- Bob
  21.