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From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
Subject: Re: Easy Open
Message-ID: <1993Mar13.122512.26542@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Organization: University of Helsinki
References: <Mar.12.20.05.27.1993.19215@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 12:25:12 GMT
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In article <Mar.12.20.05.27.1993.19215@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu> scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft) writes:
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>What does easy-open do?  I think its an INIT of some kind.

It's a Finder extension. A more appropriate name for it would be
FinderAlias, since that is exactly what it does: you can create aliases
to programs, move these alias-files wherever you want, and when you
double-click on the alias the file/folder it points to is
launched/opened.
Very useful, IMO.

	Tero Sand
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