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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: HFS Navigator: A Review
Message-ID: <1295@csib.csi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 14:38:17 EST
Article-I.D.: csib.1295
Posted: Mon Nov 16 14:38:17 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 04:56:54 EST
Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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Every programmer knows how it feels to run across a product that s/he was
thinking of writing.  Much rarer is the case when that product is actually
better then what was planned.  HFS Navigator is just such a product for me.

What is HFS Navigator?  It is an INIT that modifies the standard file dialogs
to provide you with a list of "short cuts" to other folders on the disk.  The
list is a pop-up menu that replaces the pop-up menu of parent folders.  With
HFS Navigator installed, when you select the volume name icon, you now get
a pop up menu that shows the list of short cuts.  The first entry is the name
of the current folder.  Following that is a list of the short cuts you've
installed.  Select any name from the list of short cuts and HFS Navigator
moves you immediatly to that folder.  No more popping up and down trees
looking for that folder or a this file.  It is really much simpler to use
then to describe :-).

To install a new short cut is very simple, just mouse to that
folder, pop up the short cuts menu and select the first entry (the name of
the folder).  HFS Navigator adds it to the list and you can change to it from
anywhere in the folder tree.    Select the first entry again and HFS Navigator
deletes the folder from the list.  It even tells you what action it will do
by putting a + in front of the name to show that you can add it and a -
to show that you can remove it.

If you hold down the command key, you get a second menu that is a set of
useful functions, including New Folder, Find Folder, Find File and Get File
Info.   And of course About... 

HFA Navigator was written by Micheal Kahl (the author of LightspeedC) and
is marketed by THINK Technologies.  I picked my copy up at ComputerWare
for about $50.  Usual disclaimers apply.



Jerry Whitnell				Lizzi Borden took an axe
Communication Solutions, Inc.		And plunged it deep into the VAX;
					Don't you envy people who
					Do all the things You want to do?