Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mdisea!jackb From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: System 7.0 and Suitcase Message-ID: <1991Apr1.172940.2133@MDI.COM> Date: 1 Apr 91 17:29:40 GMT References: <13724@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <17322@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@MDI.COM Distribution: usa Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA Lines: 32 In article <17322@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes: >In article starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) writes: > >>klingspo@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Steve Klingsporn) writes: >> >>> Suitcase (if it works) is pretty obsolete in 7.0. >> >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? > >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?) > >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. > >jas Actually, Suitcase is quite useful under System 7. For me, its big use is to allow me to not place all my font files in the system file. I have a large collection of Adobe fonts; installing them into the system file would balloon the file size to something quite unreasonable. Suitcase allows me to place the fonts in a seperate font directory along with their associated postscript files. Makes for a less crowded system file and folder. So, Suitcase will probably live on under System 7! - Jack Brindle ham radio: wa4fib