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From: olson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: multiple links (was 'Virtual' Folders)
Keywords: What a stupid idea!
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Date: 25 Jun 88 19:43:15 GMT
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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