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- One of the many useful enhancements in System 7 is the alias concept. As
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- a user, you are probably familiar with Finder’s alias files, the ones with
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- the names in italics. Alias files are great because they make it so much
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- easier to organize and cross-index your folders. They can even point to
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- items on network servers, and remember what to tell the modem if you
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- need to dial up to reach them!
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- Because alias files have full status in the file system, any program which
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- can open a file can open an alias file. That’s the limit of it, though. An
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- alias file can’t do anything other than point to a target item. Think of all
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- the things you could do with an alias file if you could attach more meaning
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- • play a sound, perhaps a spoken message
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- • open every item in a target folder, not the folder itself
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- • open another designated item along with the target item
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- • ask the user a question before opening the target item
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- • mount a server you know the target item will need access to
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- • talk to another program, to log usage, or to get permission
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- • make an alias file in your Startup Items folder conditional
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- Fortunately, Finder doesn’t have a monopoly on the concept of aliases.
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- Any program can use alias information to keep track of things that move.
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- This application, Maybe, takes the alias information in a Finder alias file,
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- combines it with options you set, and creates a document which does just
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- what the Finder alias did before — plus whatever you told it to do.
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- åWho Can Use Maybe?
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- Any Macintosh running System 7.0 or later can use Maybe. There is
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- nothing special to install. Because it’s an application, and not a system
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- extension, it shouldn’t conflict with your other programs.
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- Maybe works only with Finder, not with At Ease.
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- Maybe can be placed on an AppleShare file server, where any number of
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- users can access it simultaneously.
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