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From: rcbaem@eutrc3.UUCP (Ernst Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text,comp.sys.mac
Subject: A zillion files in the System Folder
Summary: A new (Old?) type of folder needed.
Keywords: Non HFS Folders
Message-ID: <481@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 10:27:12 GMT
References: <530@h-three.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcbaem@eutrc3.UUCP (Ernst Mulder)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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 The problem with the HFS file system is that ALL folders are really
separate tree-entries. So when I create a file INITs or whatever in the
System Folder they can't be seen by INIT 31 which looks only in the
System Folder itself. What I would suggest is a new type of Folder,
maybe give it a different name, which is TRANSPARENT to the
path it's located in. Graphically a bit like this
 
                        Folder 1
                     /     |        \
            Folder 2    Folder 3    Folder 4 // Map 1 // Map 2
             /   \                       |
      Folder 5  Folder 6               Folder 7


 It's difficult to draw diagrams 'live' :)
 
 Anyway: The 'Folder's are the ordinary kind of HFS folders. What I
temperally called 'Map's are non-HFS folders. So, from Folder 4 I
can see a folder called Folder 7 AND (!!) the contents of Map 1 and
Map 2.

 This way I can keep my System Folder (and other folders) 'neat'.

 Summary: Why not mix HFS and non-HFS folders?
 
 Hmmm, what icon should it have? Something close to a folder at least,
since it is a kind of folder but the again it should be visible
whether it's HFS or not. Maybe it could just be a folder's property?
I mean something like the finder-attributes?
 
 I hope this letter's not too puzzling. :)
 
 Ernst.
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