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From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HC on a Network.  QUESTIONS & HELP PLEASE
Message-ID: <53294@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 May 91 03:57:34 GMT
References: <1991May22.232930.3318@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> <12940@sybase.sybase.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <12940@sybase.sybase.com> eallen@mercury.UUCP (Ed Allen) writes:

>HyperTemp 1 is the new file created when you compact a stack.  Normally,
>the compact operation goes to completion, the old stack gets deleted, and
>HyperTemp1 gets renamed with the stack name.  If you do a compact operation
>while running on a big monitor with the finder window showing the stack
>visible under multifinder, you will see this operation.  This is also the
>reason the stack jumps around in the finder when you look for it after
>compacting.
>
>**** NOTE to HyperCard Team**** It would be really nice if you can have the
>compacted stack put into the same place in the finder window for the folder
>that the original stack was.  It's annoying to always be reorganizing icons.

The problem is actually in the 6.x Finder.  It's fixed in System 7.0.

Kevin Calhoun
jkc@apple.com