Re: Mac OS alias from Perl

At 19:01 -0500 8/12/07, Dan Neville wrote:
> Does anyone know how to make a Mac OS alias in Perl?  So, I wish to 
> have Perl create aliases in multiple directories rather than copy 
> the original file.

There actually is no API call to create an alias file.

You can do it in Perl as described at

<http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/10437>

Alternatively, you can make a new alias via AppleScripting the Finder as:

set thaAlias to "Harddisk:Users:peter:thefile.cpp" as alias

tell application "Finder"
        set f to make new alias file at desktop to thaAlias
end tell
f

Which will return the alias file created.

Enjoy,
   Peter.

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