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From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
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Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
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Date: 28 Mar 91 16:10:11 GMT
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stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:
>                                When you open the file, the
>Finder grabs the application signature, looks it up in the
>Desktop file (which keeps a track of all the apps on the disk),
>goes and finds it ("Finder" get it? :-), and launches it. It's
>quite simple really... :-)

Now WHY can't it do the same with FONTs, INITs, etc.  WHY should these
files be in the System Folder.  I don't get it: APPLs don't need to be
in "/bin" (or "MPW:Applications" :-), but all those other files have to
be in a certain directory on the disk.  And spare me that "subfolders of
the System Folder" rubbish.  I don't want all my INITs in one place (or
even having to tell the System all the places they can be, i.e. I don't
consider a search path a solution AT ALL): the fact that they are INITs
is enough information for the System to KNOW that they are INITs.

Freek "the Pistol Major" Wiedijk                      E-mail: freek@fwi.uva.nl
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