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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Finder v1.3 @ System 5.0.x
Message-ID: <51521@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 91 00:29:09 GMT
References: <8584@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <8584@crash.cts.com> aford@pro-mansion.cts.com (Adam Ford) writes:
>>Personally, I [Andy Nicholas] hate Finder v.13 that comes with System
>>5.0.x systems.
>
>What's wrong with it?  Just because you didn't write it, and you are
>writting it's replacement, doesn't mean you have to hate it...

Not because he didn't write it.  Features and Performance.

>I don't like it, because it's too slow at copying files, and the double
>click needs work.  I click ONCE, and it executes. (5.0.4) 

On rare occasions, I have seen that happen.  I dismissed it as a hardware
problem with the mouse button (dirty contacts bouncing, creating unintended
multiple clicks).

Could that explain your problems, or does do you *only* get extra clicks in
the Finder?

>By the way:  Why does SYSTEM 5.0 have FINDER v1.3?

Why not?  Actually, it shouldn't be a problem to make the Finder version
approximately match the system software version, but there are *dozens* of
version numbers in the system, and some of them are limited by data
structures to X.Y and would quickly *surpass* the system software number
if we tried to make them equal.  The disk number would increment by 0.0.1,
but the minimum increment for some of the pieces that changed would be 0.1!

Tool sets are a good example--versions can only go as high as 15.15 (and
to keep things non-confusing I would rather keep them to 9.9).
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