Creating aliases

[Ken Ray]

On 11/6/04 11:00 PM, "Shari" <shari at gypsyware.com> wrote:

> Ah well, I went back to the Applescript solution for OSX.  I had that
> working last week and when I went to wrap up the project by tweaking
> it for Windows, I had to find the Metacard solution for creating a
> desktop alias.  It was such a simple thing on Windows I felt surely
> it should be as simple on OSX.
> 
> I'm guessing that the whole package thing on OSX is what makes it
> unhappy for creating aliases in Metacard.

Yes, you can't create aliases to applications on OS X... this has already
been logged in Bugzilla (Bug #1059). In Tuviah's comments, he suggests using
the "ln" command with shell() to create a link.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com