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From: jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B.Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: One folder at the top (was Re: Misuse of the system folder...)
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.141825.9673@gorm.ruc.dk>
Date: 25 Apr 91 14:18:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.093946.22779@allgfx.agi.oz> <6+dgbkb@rpi.edu>
Organization: Roskilde University, Denmark
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Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu writes:

>There are times when I get the feeling that after a few more years my hard disk
>is going to have just one folder at the top level, a "System Folder" that has
>everything else inside of it...  Right now (here at work) I have 50 meg used on
>my hard drive, and 5.6 meg of that is in my system folder.

I don't see anything wrong with having just one folder - as long as I (or the
machine) can find what I need. Unfortunately, the technology which will allow
me to merely think "fetch me that document on telepathic interfaces I worked
in yesterday" doesn't exists yet, but in a few years we just might be able to
utter "OPEN DOCUMENT CONTAINING WORDS TELEPATIC AND INTERFACES".

>Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu

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