Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!reid From: reid@dciem.UUCP (Reid Ellis) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: New Finder Feature??? Message-ID: <1487@dciem.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 01:59:35 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1487 Posted: Wed Mar 27 01:59:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Mar-85 05:35:58 EST References: Reply-To: reid@dciem.UUCP (Reid Ellis) Distribution: net Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 18 Summary: One reason for Apple's deciding to insist on everyone using folders may be that they are going to have a true hiearchial file structure (like a tree) which demands that every file be 'under' the root directory (in Unix "/"). They could make the desktop a strange folder; ie "/DeskTop". This would allow both tree-structured directories AND allow people who don't care about tree-structure to move their files anywhere they bloody well please. The only problem with this might be files from different disks being on the desktop. Maybe for each disk you could have a DeskTop directory and thus any files on the DeskTop are *really* in the DeskTop folder of that disk. Although it may appear that files from different disks are in the same folder this way, the two [or more?] different DeskTops would just be transparent overlays. Speaking of disks, has anyone else heard a rumour about September bringing Quad-density double-sided drives? [Wow, 1.6 Meg per disk. 3.2 Meg online if you have two drives!] -- Reid Ellis "Confounded poslfit" - justin@utcs {{allegra,decvax,duke,floyd,linus}!utzoo,{ihnp4,utzoo}!utcsri}!dciem!reid