Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!shamash!pwp From: pwp@shamash.cdc.com ( HOUFAC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: System 7.0 Message-ID: <13784@shamash.cdc.com> Date: 17 Aug 89 19:13:05 GMT References: <227700026@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <483@sunfs3.camex.uucp> <9173@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Reply-To: pwp@shamash.UUCP (Pete Poorman) Organization: Control Data Corp. Lines: 23 In article <9173@thorin.cs.unc.edu> markham@phi.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham) writes: >Well; close, but no cigar. Unless your Mac plus has 2MB of main memory, >you won't even be able to run 7.0. > >7.0 will include the following: . . . . . . . . . > New Finder(symbolic lincs, modifiable Views, a more intuitive "Find > File" located as a menu option (I believe), configurable > apple menu,etc) Surely Symbolic Links are a feature of the file system, not the finder! I've seen several attempts for a user interface to maintain an image of the file system that doesn't match the underlying structure. It never works very well. (One example, the Finder before HFS.) --Pete Poorman Control Data Corporation pwp@shamash.cdc.com