Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!heifetz!tbomb!time From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Locked folders under Multifinder Date: Wed, 1 May 91 21:35:01 EST Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc. Message-ID: <1CE00001.ejzifb@tbomb.ice.com> Reply-To: time@ice.com X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.1.b3 Lines: 17 In article , barvian@ece.cmu.edu (Scott Barvian) writes: > I can't delete the folder until after I quit TeachText. So it looks like the > application "locks" the folder somehow. > > So, I trained myself to always Quit TeachText whenever I use it. But another This is due to the *wonderful* "working directory" concept Apple needed to make the transition from flat to hierarchical file systems smoothly. In essence, as long as the system is pointing to the folder it will remain "locked". ------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Endres | time@ice.com ICE Engineering | uupsi!ice.com!time 8840 Main Street | Voice FAX Whitmore Lake MI. 48189 | (313) 449 8288 (313) 449 9208