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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Misuse of the system folder...
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.134022.20395@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 13:40:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.093946.22779@allgfx.agi.oz> tkav@allgfx.agi.oz (Tony Kavadias) writes:
>I looked at my system folder one day and I thought "Apple made a system folder
>for a reason - why are programs like PageMaker, Stuffit Classic, Excel, Word,
>and hundreds of others all putting APPLICATION SPECIFIC files into a folder
>which is designed for GLOBAL use????!!!!"  I see preferences files all over
>the place in an ever-crowding folder.

Because Apple told us to, that's why.

You CAN'T put prefs files 'near' your application, because it might be on
a read-only AppleShare volume.

>I would like to see offending software developers in future make careful plans
>as to where they put their preference files. DUMPING THEM IN THE SYSTEM FOLDER
>IS NOT THE SOLUTION.  Thanks to them, we all have a messy System 6.0.  Let's

System 7 is reputed to have a 'Folder Manager' to make locating prefs files
and suchlike easier.

I suggest you lighten up, or apply for a job with WGN-TV; there's a very
popular noontime show where you would fit right in.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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