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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Opening "foreign" documents in Standard Open
Message-ID: <8996@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 90 20:29:16 GMT
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In article <1990Jul4.042132.11832@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:

>the Finder instead. I personally think the speed of the finder is pretty
>bad for picking a file from within an application. The windows clutter
>the screen terribly and take too long to update. (IMHO, of course.)

Then the Finder should be improved.  

>Perhaps we need to extend std file to include more option similar to the
>finder like sorting views and multiple selections. What say ye net?

In my opinion, you've got it backwards.  The Finder should be extended to
provide a fast way to browse the document space (a la Std File) rather than
extending Std File to include more Finder features.

Note that I don't think Std File will ever be removed, since it is a
fundamental part of the Macintosh interface.  But if you were designing a
system from scratch, I'm not sure that you would include a similar
mechanism.

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