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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Standard File dialogs going away? (was Re: System 7.0)
Message-ID: <10502@claris.com>
Date: 22 Aug 89 21:11:50 GMT
References: <227700026@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <483@sunfs3.camex.uucp> <9173@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <13784@shamash.cdc.com> <490@sunfs3.camex.uucp> <2051@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <2051@marvin.Solbourne.COM> dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott) writes:
>In article <490@sunfs3.camex.uucp> kent@sunfs3.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>
>>Related note: Apple said at the devl. conf. that standard file dialogs
>>will eventually go away.  Not with 7.0, but some point later.
>
>Intriguing.  What exactly does this mean?
>
I place this in the same category as the old rumor that DA's will go away.

Std file may someday be changed alot or an alternative interface allowed
(like using the Finder to select files), but I'd be willing to bet that
my old scruffy program that calls SFPutFile will work for a long long time...

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