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>> I really want a 'toolpath' for workbench.  I really hate it when
>> workbench can't find a project's tool just because the tool either
>> isn't installed in some specially named place or it is in a different
>> place on machine A than it is on machine B.  ...

> Neat idea.  It would be great if we could have icons in directories, and
> have the program exist in some other directory.  Then we could have the
> convenience of having a preferences icon in several drawers on a hard drive,
> but have only one preferences program on disk.

File system links gives you this and more.  With links, the
preferences program would actually exist in one place.  The links
would point to the real preferences.  To the causal user, a link looks
just like a regular file, or in this case, a regular program.  It just
doesn't take up nearly as much disk space as the real file.

So giving us links would allow you this solution for the Workbench as
well as for the CLI.

> Something else that would be pretty gosh darn teriffic (and I'm not asking
> for much here guys) is to have directories with multiple enterances.  I mean,
> you have 2 icons named utilities, in 2 diferent directories, that both take
> you into the same directory.  It saves hunting through 3 or 4 windows all
> cluttered with icons just to find the path.  It could also make for nice
> and short path names if you plan it right.

If links are provided for directories as well as files, this is also
easy to do.  Again, to the causal user, it looks like a regular
directory.  But in fact, you are in another directory.
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