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- From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
- Subject: Re: Partial paths (was Re: How to store file references/names ?)
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1e5fvgINN835@uni-paderborn.de> <7893@lib.tmc.edu> <RMF.92Nov17175921@chopin.cs.columbia.edu> <1992Nov18.020305.12583@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:11:32 GMT
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- leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
- >In article <RMF.92Nov17175921@chopin.cs.columbia.edu> rmf@chopin.cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer) writes:
- >>Of course, being able to use "relative" paths in aliases (e.g., "Up 2 folders,
- >>into the folder named 'Foo'...") would solve the problem much of the time...
- >>
- >>Unfortunately, Apple didn't put it in (even though Unix has had this for
- >>years)!
- >>
- > Apple most certainly DID put in relative aliases (see the "fromFile"
- >parameter to NewAlias & ResolveAlias), as well as supporting partial pathnames
- >ever since HFS (when such things became valid). To move up two leves and
- >then into a folder named foo, you would use "::::foo:".
-
- ... and you would move up three levels, not two :-)
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- Matthias
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