Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!taob
From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System folder auxtype
Message-ID: <420@generic.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 07:45:08 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON
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From dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons):

> I believe the System folder itself, on disk, has an auxiliary type of
> zero. The Finder *pretends* internally that the System folder on your
> boot disk has auxiliary type $0002 for Icon matching purposes.
>
> This would explain why changing the auxiliary type had no effect for
> you; it was already 0, and the Finder ignores the real auxiliary type.
>
> (Folder auxiliary types are generally insignificant and should not be
> counted on.  Not all file systems have a place to store them!) 

    No, I checked in Prosel-16 and again in BASIC.System (I have a patch which
shows the auxtype of all files).  The System folder is indeed auxtype $0002 on
disk.  Just to make sure, I used Block Warden to look at the actual directory
entry on disk.  As far as I can see, it is $0002.

    Is there some place we could send bug reports/suggestions for the Finder? 
I sent e-mail to Andy at shrinkit@apple.com, but I don't know if it reached
him...

Brian T. Tao  {taob@pnet91.cts.com} ||  Computer guru?  Someone who got
University of Metro Toronto         ||  their computer a couple of weeks
Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8         *B-) ||  before you did.  (Alvin Toffler)