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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: System 5.0.4
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Date: 4 Mar 91 15:11:27 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.051913.19742@world.std.com> lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green) writes:
>I got mail from Andy Nicholas about two weeks ago (in response to 
>some suggestions I made regarding the Finder..such as a "Windows"
>menu). His mail was short and very encouraging. Basically: You
>will be extremely pleased with the new Finder. This tells me that
>there will be a release sometime RSN (real soon now) and we are
>going to get some nice new features in the Finder. 

That's great!

>Oh, another feature I asked for: The ability to enter a few lines
>of text into the Get Info dialog box, like on the Mac. I for one
>am always forgetting version numbers, author names, etc. On my
>mac at work, the Get Info helps me keep things straight.

What did he say about this one? There was some discussion about this a
couple of months (maybe a year or so) ago. On the Mac, the Get Info
information is stored in a resource fork. Although this could be done
on the GS, it would make the file uncopyable by Prodos 8 applications.
The general consensus was that it wasn't worth adding a resource just
to stick a comment into a file. I guess one could tack the comment
onto the end of the file, but I really don't think that would be a
good idea...

>-- 
>Kevin S. Green / lucifer@world.std.com / {xylogics;uunet}!world!lucifer
>Party naked... /AOL: Gargoth / Pro-line: kgreen@pro-angmar


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