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From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 5.0.2 Finder Bugs
Summary: I found a kind of neat one...
Message-ID: <1190@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 90 11:17:04 GMT
References: <25fed47d.217d@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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	Fun with the Finder... Open up a disk (preferably a RAMdisk - I'm not
sure what this does to memory), and create a new folder on it. Then rename
the folder "dir". Create a junk file on the drive (you can just copy some
small file onto it), and rename that "file". Now, select "file", and pick
"Duplicate" from the File menu. When asked for the name, type "dir:file", and
hit Ok. It'll work for a short time (duplicating the file), and then you'll
see a file in the window named "dir:file". Now, close the window. Then
re-open the same window. "dir:file" is gone (gasp!). Now open "dir" - there's
"file". I'd recommend re-booting after this, as I have no idea how confused
the Finder gets by this (if it gets confused at all...).

	Why this happens: The colon (':') is used to separate entries in a
pathname. So, ":RAM5:dir:file" describes the file "file" in the folder "dir"
on the volume ":RAM5", and ":RAM5:file" describes the file "file" on the
volume ":RAM5". Now, when you tell it to duplicate "file" as "dir:file",
you're telling it to copy ":RAM5:file" to ":RAM5" + "dir:file" =
":RAM5:dir:file". So, it does that part properly, but it forgets to stick
the icon for the file somewhere else...
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                      Jason Blochowiak - jason@madnix.UUCP
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