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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: My review of the new stuff in System 7.0 (long)
Message-ID: <1991May19.061514.27830@visix.com>
Date: 19 May 91 06:15:14 GMT
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In article <34576@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:

      * Aliases work even if you move the original file elsewhere on the drive.
	(Double-clicking an alias for an ejected diskette requests that you
	reinsert the diskette.)

Not only that, aliases to network volumes will automount the volume,
even from a different machine.  Deeply cool.

	You can even paste icons onto diskettes!

Yup.  Even better than Facade.

   In summary, the whole thing is much more elegant... There is a
   consistency to things.

Yes.  In fact, some people have said that System 7 is, and I quote,
"even more Mac-like than before," which is a very odd comment if you
think about it :).

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