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From: day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
Message-ID: <495@grand.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 19:36:03 GMT
References: <30353@apple.Apple.COM> <2903@cps3xx.UUCP> <1752@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost)
Organization: Grand Software, Inc., Los Angels, CA 213-650-1089
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In article <1752@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>Both the desktop and the trash will be implemented as special directories
>in System 7.0.  Also, the trash is not emptied automatically by the Finder;
>the user must use the Empty Trash command.

I would hope that the user would also have the option
of setting trash emptying behavior so that files in
the trash are automatically purged when needed in FIFO
order (and not before).

With this behavior in place, I would also love it
if when I trash "HD:x:y:z" it would be renamed to
"HD:trash:HD:x:y:z".  Now I would have a true FIFO trash,
and it would be possible to ask things like whether
there exists a trashed file corresponding to some file
on the system.

 --dave yost