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Article #29561Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!! (This reply 100 lines)
From: Duane Williams
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1988 04:04
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1988 04:04
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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. -- uucp: ...!seismo!cmucspt!me.ri.cmu.edu!dtw arpa: dtw@cs.cmu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!dtw From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!! (This reply 100 lines) Keywords: What a stupid idea! Message-ID: <2044@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 25 Jun 88 04:04:20 GMT References: <46100167@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1437@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <5282@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Distribution: na Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 16