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From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Can one now rename "Home"
Message-ID: <72664@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 91 20:24:42 GMT
References: <1991May29.074501.5095@vax5.cit.cornell.edu| <53440@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
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In article <53440@apple.Apple.COM| jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) writes:
|
|In article <1991May29.074501.5095@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
|lasj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
|>It would seem that the "Home" stack no longer has to be named "Home" in order
|>to function as a "Home" stack (unless, of course, I'm doing something
|>"wrong"!).
|>
|>Is this a new feature? If someone on the HC team is thinking "Ooops, that's
|>a bug to fix!", may I submit to you, "That's not a bug - that's a feature!",
|>and a great one at that !
|
|No, no one here is saying "ooops" -- it was done intentionally.
|
|HyperCard 2.x is a lot smarter about the Mac file system than 1.x was.
|This feature is just a part of it.
|
|Kevin Calhoun
|jkc@apple.com

So what are the other parts of HC 2.x's newfound file system smarts?

James Thiele
microsoft!jamesth