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