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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Accessing the APPL resources in the desktop file.
Message-ID: <1990May3.173024.437@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 May 90 17:30:24 GMT
References: <500@lily.warwick.ac.uk> <14850@reed.UUCP> <40699@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <40699@apple.Apple.COM> pvh@Apple.COM (Pete Helme) writes:

->The desktop file is obsolete.  Apple now endorses the use of the Desktop
->Manager INIT for non-AppleShare Macs.

>uh... it is?  we do?

>Pete Helme
>MacDTS
>Apple Computer

Yes, it is.  No, you don't -- and for the life of me I can't figure out why.
Try explaining to someone with 2500+ files on his disk just why it is that
Apple still wants to pretend that Desktop Manager shouldn't be used.

No one wants to use the release Multifinder, either, when they see 6.1b9 on
my machine.  They don't understand when I tell them that "6.1 is for the
important developer folks -- ordinary people aren't allowed to 'set aside'".

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)