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From: ins145s@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  b.c. adamson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: A few questions
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Date: 25 Oct 90 05:02:49 GMT
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I just installed system 6.0.7 (thanks to apple's ftp site - would you
believe that the last time I got a system software upgrade from a dealer
it came complete with complimentary WDEF virus) and I have a few questions:

1) Why have apple decided to make the colored apple at the top of my 
apple menu bigger? It's only one pixel bigger in each direction, but 
it looks UGLY (in my opinion anyway). Looks like I'll have ResEdit out
tonight to get the old icon from system 6.0.5.

2) I was looking through some of the installer resources the other week
and I noticed a dialog that displays a credit message about the authors
saying things like "Totally righteous dude" and asking which of 5 
"wait" cursors I want to use. The cursor resources are there too, but I
couldn't find a way to bring up the dialog. Has anyone out there managed
to do this? (This was on the 6.0.5 installer, it may have been removed 
by 6.0.7

3) (On a slightly more serious note) Why don't apple make more extensive
use of the Edit menu in the finder? What I'm specifically referring
to is the ability to undo things like moving files and deleting. Sure,
You can undo a deletion by dragging from the trash, but shouldn't the
Undo command (or cmd-Z) do this too? On this topic, couldn't the Cut,
Copy and Paste commands work on files, rather than just file names?
Sure, the clipboard couldn't hold the whole file, but it COULD hold a
symbolic representation of the file (which would, in the case of Cut 
be placed in a temporary folder - perhaps the Trash folder in system 7).

Just my two bits worth.

Boyd Adamson
ins145s@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au
ins145s@monu3.cc.monash.edu.au