Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!chow
From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!!
Message-ID: <5191@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 88 03:21:27 GMT
References: <8806161351.AA09732@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 30

In article <8806161351.AA09732@decwrl.dec.com> hunt@atse.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
>I always thought that the idea of 'Virtual' folders, ie MFS-type folders on an
>HFS disk was a good idea as an organizer.  You could place all your INITs in
>a Virtual folder that visually unclutters the desktop display, but to the
>system, these items look on the directory level the virtual folder is stored in.
> 

But why even use virtual folders?  Why not use true folders?  The system
could look for cdevs in a cdev folder, inits in an inits folder, etc.  Of
course, to keep compatibility the system should also look in the system
folder itself - this way people who don't know about this feature won't get
stung by it.  But, for people who know this could save substantial amounts
of time when using either the control panel, chooser, etc.  There's no
reason why the system folder itself has to have tons of files in it.  All it
would take is a simple  modification to INIT31, the Chooser, and the Control Panel.

---

BTW, a few system updates ago Apple released a change log documenting what
changed between system distribution.  Since they no longer seem to do that,
does anyone know exactly how system 6.0 and 5.0 differ?

Christopher Chow
/---------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Internet:  chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.248.35 or 128.84.253.35)   |
| Usenet:    ...{uw-beaver|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow          |
| Bitnet:    chow@crnlthry.bitnet                                           |
| Phone:     1-201-836-3673   Address: 671 Forest Ave, Teaneck, NJ 07666    |
| Delphi:    chow2            PAN:  chow                                    |
\---------------------------------------------------------------------------/