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From: Kevin Sitze
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 16:58
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 16:58
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In <eam@aipna.ed.ac.uk's message of 4 May 89 16:24:04 GMT> Emilio
Agustine write:
>I was wondering if anybody in the net has any idea on how to
>make a kind of link to an application (in the UNIX(TM) style) or
>to any file in general.
>
>The idea is to have a file of minimal size in the desktop (or wherever)
>pointing to file. When you double-click on it should behave exactly as
>if you double-click on the linked file.
>
>I would like to have links to the most used applications/files on the
>desktop for easy access. However, I can think of several uses
>for such a thing (avoiding duplications of text files, for example).
I been working on an INIT that will allow links to be created in the
manner you specified. I expect to have this done sometime in June and
will post it at that time.
While I'm thinking about such things, if anyone out there has an idea
that would look good in this kind of a program, please send mail.
-Kelesi
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