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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System 5.0.4
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Date: 5 Mar 91 21:45:03 GMT
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From lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green):

> 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.

    Great!  It's very encouraging to hear words like that from Apple (at least
the portion that still supports the II...)  I just wish Andy would reply to
more of _my_ mail.  :->

    I thought it would be a nifty idea if GS/ShrinkIt could be incorporated
into the Finder.  There would be a a couple new items under the "File" or
"Special" menu:  Shrink... and Unshrink....  You can highlight a bunch of
files/folders in the Finder, select Shrink... and the Finder would pop up a
dialog box asking you for a pathname.  Then it will auto-shrink the files. 
Double-clicking on a NuFX archive would perhaps open up a window listing its
contents.  To extract, you simply highlight the appropriate files/folders and
drag them to a destination window.  Other functions (such as deleting,
renaming and moving archive contents) could also be implemented in the same
easy fashion.  Getting Info on an archive element will allow you to type in a
comment for that file.  If that's the only improvement to the new Finder, I
would be satisfied.

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."