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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.
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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