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Re: managing windows

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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 1990 23:50
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In article <5589@okstate.UUCP> minich@a.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
>  At first I said "Hey, I liked the closed-when-i-quit trick better!"
>Now I think tunneling is more useful, especially if you use an un-
>documented modification to the Finder's LAYO resource (there's a
>program just for this purpose, whose name I can't recall, but should be
>something like LAYO-manager, available at sumex) to make option-clikcing
>the title bar of a window open the PARENT of that window. This way, you
>can go backwards up the hierarchy, although it is not tunnelled (sp?).
>ie, the child window remains open. Too bad the finder doesn't have a
>pref box with this option (among others).

Correction. To reopen current folder's parent, you must change the LAYO 128
resource with say ResEdit and double-click on the folder window's title bar.
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From: clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Club Mac, Australia's Largest Mac Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: managing windows
Message-ID: <1616@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 30 Apr 90 23:50:58 GMT
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