[futurebasic] Help with File Manager & such

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From: Chris <behmc@...>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:48:58 -0400
I'm most likely going to be writing a utility to keep a bunch of files
organized and swap them in and out of different folders.

It's for Bungie's "Myth: The Fallen Lords" game and the plugins associated
with it.  Not sure if anyone here is familiar with any of that, but it
doesn't really matter.

What I've been thinking about doing is letting the user add the files for a
specific "plugin group" to a list and storing aliases to each of those
files.  Then when the user wants to have that group active, he can just add
the group title to the list and it will move all the files to the correct
locations.

I haven't touched the file manager or aliases because they frighten me ;)
so I was wondering if anyone had some tips to start the whole process.

Also, is it best to keep an alias of the folder(s) that I will be moving
things to and from?  There will be at least one source folder and possibly
many folders to move things into.  Pathnames would work but aren't what I
want to do at all.  Pathnames are bad :)  I'd like to go for maximum
usability and least user set up and maintainance.  That's why I figure
aliases are the way to go.  Here again, I have no experience so if someone
would be kind to point out a starting place I'd be forever grateful.

Thanks,
*Chris