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From: umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Version 7.0 questions
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.233913.3418@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 03:39:13 GMT
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In article <18440@milton.u.washington.edu>,
phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) writes:
>      The Apple menu works on a completely new principle.  Anything you put in
> the "Apple Menu Items" subfolder in the System Folder immediately shows up in
> the Apple menu.  Applications, DAs, folders, whatever.  Note that with the
> aliasing capability of 7.0, you can add anything anywhere on any disk to the
> Apple menu by just putting an alias of it in the Apple Menu Items folder.
>      In short, DAs still work just fine.  But with MultiFinder always on,
> full-fledged applications as easily accessible as DAs, and virtual memory
> available on most machines (so the small size of the average DA isn't as much
> of an advantage), there's not as much incentive to use them.

Something I wonder about: Can one create submenus in this new improved Apple
menu? I would like to have submenus for, say, CDEVs, DAs, Applications, and
Folders, rather than having a single list of probably more than 100 items.

Maynard Handley
maynard@helios.tn.cornell.edu