Relative aliases

[Clark Cox]

On 10/26/07, Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, October 26, 2007, at 11:16AM, "Markus Hitter" <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:
> >
> >Am 26.10.2007 um 17:28 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
> >
> >> We are trying to create aliases using the Alias Manager with a
> >> relative path.
> >
> >What stops you from using symbolic links? I know, Apple drops more
> >and more Unix goodies, but links appear to have a longer lifetime,
> >Time Machine just offered a new version of them.
>
> The point of this is to be able to serialize a list of files to disk on one system, relative
> to e.g. the document location, then be able to locate them on another system with a
> potentially different directory structure (but the same location relative to the
> document).  Symlinks aren't going to help with that.

Why wouldn't symlinks work for this?

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Clark S. Cox III
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