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Subject: More Get-Info, and the DeskTop
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Date: 27 Sep 90 03:20:38 GMT
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Thanks to all who responded to my question on the Get-Info
feature. As most wrote to say, rebuilding the DeskTop 
does indeed erase the information fields, as I double-checked
with a quick test. So what use can these information fields
have then?

While we're on the subject of the DeskTop ...
1. Is there an analogous concept (to DeskTop) in the PC-world?
   (i.e., what *is* the DeskTop anyways!?)
2. When I use DiskTop to find the DeskTop, it actually
   finds several copies. Where did they come from, and
   which is the real one? Should my information fields be
   embedded in the real one?
3. What does "rebuilding" the DeskTop mean?


-Rick Vitale.