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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How other GUIs handle deletion.
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Date: 10 Feb 91 00:02:10 GMT
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>Substitute "Cute Black Hole which swirls," for "Ugly Standard Trashcan"
>Substitute ~/NeXT/.NeXTtrash for dev:Trashcan, only one user!
>
>>NeXT --
>>	When a file icon is placed in the Black Hole (or Recycler in 2.0), the
>>Workspace moves the file to ~/.NeXT/.NeXTtrash.  For those readers unfamiliar
>>with UNIX conventions, "~" is the current user's home directory -- one user,
>>one Black Hole.

These are the luxuries of having a hard drive an obligatory part
of the computer system.  Machines which have a significant
portion of the installed base floppy-bound  (e.g., Amiga, Mac,
IBM clones, Atari...)  would find the NeXT's system impossibly
annoying  (though it's ideal for a computer in NeXT's
situation).  Indeed, occasionally Macs demand long-since put
away diskettes before they permit shutdown of the system, and
that *is* impossibly annoying.  

Ditto the multiple users/multiple waste directories.  Ideal for
a Unix multiuser system, silly for a single-user system like the
above-mentioned PCs.  Does anyone know what Open Look does?
(perhaps a businesslike, straightforward DELETE item on the menu
for Serious Users who mean DELETE when they say it, dammit!)

>Eric Wampner
>eww@heretic.engr.ucf.edu

Charmed, I'm sure   :*)

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