Re: [MacPerl-Forum] Droplet Creation Woes....

[robinmcf@altern.org]

>>On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:27:38 +0100, Greenblatt & Seay wrote:
>
>Too bad droplets don't work like aliases do. If you move the target of an
>alias the alias is not immediately modified, but when you double click the
>alias it somehow manages to find the target and then updates itself with
>the path to the target's new location.

this is because the OS use a file spec. Each file on a Mac has a unique ID
number. Try deleting a file and putting a new copy in it's place and you'll
find that you'll need to manually update any aliases to the file, even
although it is exactly identical in all other respects. Have a look through
the files.pm and morefiles.pm to see file specs being manipulated

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