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From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
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Subject: Re: Open Panel display
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Date: 30 Jun 91 04:33:05 GMT
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In article <13638@pt.cs.cmu.edu> eahb@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Edwin Blackwood) writes:
>While this is not a critical issue, I need help figuring it out.  On my
>machine, when I run an application and bring up the open panel, the only
>names which show up are those with valid extensions, or UNIX sub-directories.
>However, on other machines, I often notice that ALL the files/directories
>show up, BUT the invalid ones are gray'ed out.

The "Large File System" button in Preferences is responsible for the
difference.  On large (and slow) file systems, having the invalid files
show up as gray (rather than not show up) means that the OpenPanel does not
have to stat all the files in a directory before it can show the 
browser column.

Ali, Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com