Re: *Title (was: the Wimp_Poll blues)

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From: burke
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:49

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In article <Bz3x8B.B4z@cen.ex.ac.uk>, CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk (C.D.Latham) writes:
> Use of *Title was depreciated under Arthur (I can't remember why now!)

I think it was just because it didn't do anything useful (it was a hangover
from DFS!), and to avoid confusion with disc names. I guess Acorn never
thought about using it in the filer (but, as recent discussion has shown,
Acorn don't seem to have thought much about the Filer at all :-)

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