In article <3e67773b@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

> > I don't know if aliases are implemented like this. An attempt to open an 
> > alias with the standard C code may attempt to open the actual alias 
> > file, not its target.

Well, the command line tools don't recognize them, so I guess this is 
the case.


>   That would diminish the usefulness of aliases a lot.

Not really, almost everything uses higher level API's. The standard Unix 
tools don't, but that's about it.

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