Ah! I didn't know that feature. Sounds great, somehow similar to the "object oriented" behaviour OS/2 had.

I never heard of those aliases before—it seems they aren't used widely … ? Which is a pity, of course. Are there any OS X programmers here who could tell us if it is a hassle to use that feature without stumbling into problems if the FS isn't HFS(+)? I mean, wouldn't it be great if one could just, say, move the cache folder of a browser to anywhere (on the same fs) they like, without causing any problems whatsoever?

Thanks for the insight, btw.

Best regards,

Christian

P.S.: I fear the problem is somewhat similar to resource forks—a great concept, but limited to HFS(+), thus problematic in terms of OS interoperability and therefore used less and less …