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James Tauber's Blog 2004/10/12

Aliases and Symlinks

Things are going well so far using a filesystem as a PIM. One odd observation, though, about OS X.

If I create a symlink from a shell, it comes up as an alias in Finder. But if I create an alias in Finder, it doesn't look like a symlink from the shell (it's an empty file but there's no display of the target).

by jtauber : Created on Oct. 12, 2004 : Last modified Feb. 8, 2005 : (permalink)