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From: calvin@portia.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Beauty of HFS
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.071436.22060@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Feb 91 07:14:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.184558.2874@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>In article <1CE00001.2uro9z@tbomb.ice.com>, time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
>claims cases where a Mac was "disabled because it could not seem to deal
>with the enormous number of files in a directory".
>
>Are you sure this wasn't a problem with the well-known limitations on
>the resource-based Desktop database? If so, switching to Desktop Manager
>should fix the problem.

	What is the DeskTop Manger? I've heard of this before, but I have never seen
such a thing. If it is so useful where can I get such a beast?

Peter Chang