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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: word/count DA question
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 14:39:44 EST
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> Sorry about my posting re the grep DA.  As soon as I discovered it was
> a DA & installed it, it worked just fine.  To me: "Read the documentation,
> jackass!"  Please no flames even tho I deserve them.
> 
> It's a nice DA to have.  I sure wish "save output" worked from the Finder.

You're not the only one who has said this.  I'll post my motivation
for it publicly so other people who disagree can take shots at me and maybe
make me change my mind  (...did I say that?  Naw!  I'm a fundamentalist,
so I *can't* change my mind!! :-).

I noticed a while back that Extras wouldn't let me delete files from
the Finder.  More recently, newer versions of  DiskInfo (ones that delete
files) also won't let you clobber files from the Finder.  I take this
behavior to mean that it's not nice to create or delete files while in 
the Finder, since it won't know about them, and therefore won't really
have knowledge of the correct state of the desktop.

Is it correct to prohibit such things?  If not, why not?  I'd just as
soon take out the relevant code (leaves smaller DA), but having inferred
that it was more proper to include it, I put it in.

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Paul DuBois     {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--
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