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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - bad idea!!
Message-ID: <3126@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 88 00:43:11 GMT
References: <8806161351.AA09732@decwrl.dec.com> <3216@polyslo.UUCP> <3818@saturn.ucsc.edu> <12530@apple.Apple.COM> <2421@cxsea.UUCP> <5151@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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In article <5151@dasys1.UUCP> alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>The concept of the path is an elegant solution to the generic problem of how to
>store and categorize files. In the Mac's case, it needs only one or two
>alterations to really provide an intuitive, useful, and *COMPATIBLE* solution
>to the problem that you, I, and everyone's uncle Harry is having with organizing
>files on your typical average 780 MB disk...

I should point out that the minimum allocation unit on your uncle's disk is
12288 bytes.  I submit that this won't be a real problem until Apple's file
system can handle more than 65K allocation units per volume.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)