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From: sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 concern & wish list
Keywords: System 7.0, find file
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Date: 17 Oct 89 15:52:59 GMT
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In article <2245@ethz.UUCP> macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) writes:
>The basic idea is to include the "find file" DA into the Finder. You
>have to be able to find at least a pattern at any position of a filename
>(e.g. "street map" in "N Camarillo street map(1989)"). Explicit use of
>wildcards is, in my opinion, not an absolute necessity.

I believe Apple has announced that they intend to have a find command
in their new version of the Finder scheduled with 7.0 (I recall a
magazine article: "...the Finder finally will...")

Wildcards, I don't know.

-Sho
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