Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!asuvax!tosh!starta From: starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: System 7.0 and Suitcase Keywords: suitcase system 7.0 and obsolete Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 00:06:32 GMT References: <17322@venera.isi.edu> Reply-To: tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (John Starta) Distribution: usa Organization: Micro Orchard Co., Phoenix, AZ Lines: 30 jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes: > This may be great for current Suitcase owners, but can anyone justify > the expense of purchasing it for Sys7? Or for use now if they plan to > go to 7 as soon as it's out? With a street price of around $50., I think the convenience of a resource manager such as Suitcase outweighs the expense. But then, I'm not trying to sell anyone on it, I was just answering a question. > All it does now is let you group DAs in places other than the system > subfolders, right? (Actually, DAs in the above sentence can be > replaced by suitcases, right?) Actually, you can make suitcases of DAs, fonts, and Fkeys. > It seems to me that this product is history, realistically. Unless > the number of people who continue to use sys6 is great, and they don't > now own Suitcase, but would buy it in the future. Perhaps. Personally, I think Suitcase, and other resource managers like it, will go through some changes, but I believe they are far from becoming a part of history. John -- John A. Starta Internet: tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu Chief Technologist UUCP: ...ncar!noao!asuvax!tosh!starta Micro Orchard Co. AOL: AFA John; CompuServe: 71520,3556