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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: A few questions
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Date: 25 Oct 90 17:40:38 GMT
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In article <5516@monu1.cc.monash.oz> ins145s@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  b.c. adamson) writes:
>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.

Yep, I did that.

>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

It's still there-- 'ski' at the main screen, like 6.0.5 and the 7.0 alpha.
BTW, did you notice the comment about running out of memory in the DiskCopy
Documentation:  If this message appears, you do not have enough memory to
duplicate even a single 400K disk.  You are probably running under Multifinder
with a wimpy partition, or on a Mac less than a Plus.  In either case, you
should be shot.

>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).

YEAH! 

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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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