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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
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Subject: Re: Tell me:  what was System 1.0 like?
Summary: no more MFS folders
Message-ID: <1991May15.213025.4568@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 21:30:25 GMT
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In article <1991May15.171142.1992@MDI.COM> jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle) writes:
>System 7 supports MFS disks quite nicely. I can read and write (format, too)
>400K disks all day long. It's just the little dot that used to denote HFS
>windows in the Finder has gone away. I guess five years from now we will
>have a thread with memories of "the little HFS dot."

Actually, System 7 Finder only minimally supports MFS diskettes.  All MFS
folder support has been removed (MFS folders don't show up at all), and it
won't let you drag folders onto an MFS disk (it displays an alert warning you
to drag the items inside individually).  Oh well.  I think it would have
presented a cleaner user interface if they had continued to support MFS
folders, but perhaps the code was too arcane to be worth updating.


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