Another obscure query

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From: Steve Rogers
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 00:00

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Preamble for those who haven't noticed this one before: Find File
disallows the dragging of multiple files to the Trash but allows
multiple files to be dragged to an alias of the Trash.

It's a fairly well-known quirk, but *why* (or "how"?) does it do it?

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