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From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams)
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Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!!  (This reply 100 lines)
Keywords: What a stupid idea!
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Date: 25 Jun 88 04:04:20 GMT
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I certainly hope that Apple has the good sense to ignore all this nonsense
about reincarnating "virtual folders" or creating "clipped together"
documents and that they will instead enhance the "poor man's search path."

> (Surely a computer interface for the rest of us should preserve the
> paradigms whereby we create and manipulate messes.)

This is exactly what computer interfaces should avoid.  "Clipped together"
documents are a pretty dumb idea.  If there were a good search path
mechanism built into the file system, then the real folders we already have
would do everything that "clipped together" documents would do, but in a
visibly organized way.
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