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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 & Aliases
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Date: 5 Sep 89 18:29:17 GMT
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I may just be staid and boring, but I don't see the point of all of the
people that say how File IDs will make it so much easier to "move files
around."   How many people rearrange their disks a lot (beyond the first
2 weeks right after purchase, anyway)?  The closest thing I can think of
that I do is occasionally rearrange my directory hierarchy now and then.

I mean, I can construct scenarios where I would move things around a lot,
but I find it hard to imagine actually doing so in normal day-to-day life.
Aliases make it a little easier to imagine, but still...

How many people actually feel that File IDs will solve a problem they
have with using their Macintosh?  I don't mean to flame--I'm genuinely
curious, although I'm interested in more concrete answers than "it
would just be cool, that's all" :-)...

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

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