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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System Disk 5.0.3 and two observations
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Date: 9 Nov 90 16:00:04 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON
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>      WHY can't they just do it the way the Mac does? Unless I'm remembering
> wrong, the Mac just uses the name over the scroll window as the "volumes"
> list (always or only when you're at the root of a volume?? I forget)..

    Not quite... the Mac has a pop-up menu in place of the pathname list that
GS/OS has.  You can backup as many levels of folders as you want in one click.
With GS/OS, you have to click-click-click... until you are back at the top. 
At the root directory, the pop-up menu doesn't list anything on the Mac.  I
thought System 5.0.3 would have pop-up menus in the SFDialogs!  There are a
few in the ImageWriter driver.

>      This has been there for a LONG time. I just booted up GS/OS and ran
> SHRConvert to check.. clicking on the name DOES close the subdirectory. (I
> ran SHRConvert to make sure it was a fairly old program. I believe the
> "Standard File Dialog" may be a built-in function so I will say I was using
> 5.02, but this definitely shows it's not new in 5.03).

    OA-Up and OA-Down will also take you up (or down) one folder level, if
you're into using the keyboard.  Closing a folder by clicking on the pathname
has been around since the System 4.0.  Besides, SHRConvert uses SF dialogs,
and just because it's an old program doesn't mean it will use the old dialog
boxes.  It uses whatever the current system software provides.

>      Having an Expressload version of something like MicroWings would be
> neat.. (Heck, it MIGHT be Expressloaded already, I've just tried it..)

    I think most of Vitesse's new software is ExpressLoaded.  MicroWings is
only a couple kilobytes anyway, so it probably wouldn't make much
difference...

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