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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.015914.18983@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Nov 90 01:59:14 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.163628.900@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1990Oct31.220114.14952@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Oct31.223953.21937@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Oct31.223953.21937@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>I'm told, by someone I tend to believe, that if you are using the Desktop
>Manager, the Finder cannot find an application if it is on a different
>partition (or drive?) from one of its documents.

>Is this really true?  How do you all survive?

I haven't seen that problem.  Maybe it only happens if you attach a drive
that doesn't have the Desktop Manager files on it (say, from another Mac).
In my case, all my partitions use DM, and double-clicking works fine.

It is useful to leave an old-style .Desktop file on the disk (copy one from
a blank floppy) so that a Floppy based system won't feel compelled to build
a complete one from scratch.  In THAT case, you won't be able to find the
application unless DM was on the floppy system.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)