Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ban the Cloud!
Message-ID: <4507@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 17:42:00 GMT
References: <8802192003.AA29265@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <8802192003.AA29265@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:

>>	Let WB fork out into different tasks whenever a drawer is opened,
>>		files are SNAPSHOTTED, DELETED, etc.  And while we are at it,
>>	Add ability for name-based directory listings sorted alphabetically,
>	by date, etc. like on the Mac.
>
>	This is unrealistic.  You obviously have no concept as to the
>hardships of writing multiple-cooperating-data_structre_sharing-processes.

Forget that -- just think of the hardships on your drive of opening two
drawers simultaneously :-( ! Or snapshot while a program load is going on.

As for the other part, the name-based directory listings ability, did Peter
da Silva's "browser" program ever get posted? Our site received part 1 of 2,
or 2 of 2, but that was only the docs.

John
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