Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!nikhefk!paulm
From: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!!
Message-ID: <390@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 23:16:36 GMT
References: <8806161351.AA09732@decwrl.dec.com> <3216@polyslo.UUCP>
Reply-To: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)
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In article <3216@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes:
#In article <8806161351.AA09732@decwrl.dec.com> hunt@atse.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
#>Apple, does this not sound like an excellent idea?  My system folder currently
#>contains 106 files (26 inits) and assorted 'Preferences' files created by
#>applications....
#
#  I think this is a great idea!!!!!  It would also be good for help files
#and other things.  Now if Apple were to provide a way of pathing like is
#{uggh} MS-Dos or Unix then we wouldn't need Virtual folders, can we please 
#have one or the other Apple?  I'm partial to Virtual folders myself, I hate
#having to have paths.
#

Try using the Set Paths or HFSFind DA. I believe both do what you want.
I created a Preferences, LaserFonts, etc, folder to which I point
with Set Paths. Some (not all) applications fall for it.

I surely agree that Apple should provide for this...

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. such
. a
. waste
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. valuable
. space
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        Paul Molenaar

	"Just checking the walls"
		- Basil Fawlty -
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        Paul Molenaar

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