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From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: finder irritations
Message-ID: <621@parcplace.com>
Date: 19 Oct 89 01:03:57 GMT
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jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes:

+In article <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
+>
+>1. You have two folders open and you want to transfer or
+>copy a file from one to the other. You click on the file
+>you want to move and then its window comes to the front
+>which totally obliterates your view of the destination folder.
+>Yuck! it would have been easier to use DOS or UNIX.

+Yes!  YES!  YES!  I am a relatively new (< 6 mos.) Mac user and this is,
+without a doubt, my number one complaint in the "sounds small, but is
+amazingly irritating" category.  (I've wanted to post this complaint myself,
+but was afraid of being laughed at by the old timers. :-)

+Is there any chance that some Mac-guru with some extra time on his hands
+could think up and implement some way to remove this particular thorn 
+from our sides?  Perhaps an init to provide an option that temporarily 
+disables the mandate that the clicked-in folder comes to the top?
+I don't know enough about the MacInternals to know if this is even possible,
+but there must be SOME way to ease this pain.

There is a freeware INIT called Rear Window that allows you to pick
icons from a folder other than the active folder -- however, on my
6.0.2 SE, it doesn't work under MultiFinder, only under Finder.

Mike Khaw
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