i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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another weirdness: aliases don't act like symbolic links, but symbolic links act like aliases. this is important for trying to access shortcuts at the darwin level & especially for webservers like mine that follow symbolic links (but which can't, alas, follow aliases). i noticed yesterday that there isn't anything in darwin that marks an alias as special: it isn't marked with a sticky bit; it doesn't show up as a link with ls -F. there's absolutely nothing you can do with an alias in darwin. but if you create a symbolic link in darwin, you can access it just like a normal alias in aqua. harumph.