Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!vanvleck!uwmcsd1!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!olson From: olson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: multiple links (was 'Virtual' Folders) Keywords: What a stupid idea! Message-ID: <5295@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 25 Jun 88 19:43:15 GMT References: <46100167@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1437@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <5282@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <2044@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: olson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (olson) Distribution: na Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 23 In article <2044@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) writes: >I certainly hope that Apple has the good sense to ignore all this nonsense >about reincarnating "virtual folders" or creating "clipped together" >documents and that they will instead enhance the "poor man's search path." > What do people think of allowing a file to be in two folders at one? This is allowed on Unix systems. You either have the file be in two folders with equal status (hard link) or the file is really only in one folder and the other folder has a file that says "when you try to access me, instead go access file *" (soft links) I find this to be a useful thing for files that I want to access in different ways, and for trying to simulate the concepts of IMPORT and EXPORT in languages that don't have the idea. I think that such a feature might address some of the concerns that brought up the virtual folder. I also think a good search path is also needed. Todd Olson olson@helios.tn.cornell.edu