As some of you may have noticed, a number of Unix tools, especially file and Web servers (such as FTP, NFS, Samba, and Apache), have trouble resolving the System 7 style alias files created by the Finder's "Make Alias" command. Many of these tools think these alias files are actually regular files with nothing inside them, which makes them useless in some situations.

Just about all Unix tools, however, can resolve symbolic links. Symbolic links are similar to aliases, except that they point back to the original file in a way that every Unix application can understand. Until now, however, creating a symbolic link usually involved a trip to the Terminal.

SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin (for OS X 10.3.9 through 10.5.8) and software service (for OS X 10.6 or later) that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files.

The goal of this product is to decrease users' trips to the Terminal in order to use the "ln -s" command.

Requirements:
For the menu plugin: OS X 10.3.9 through 10.5.8
For the service: OS X 10.6 or later
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