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Article #6472Re: System 7.0 concern & wish list (LON
From: mcdonald
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1989 09:40
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1989 09:40
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Why add wildcard searches to the MAC, rather than some sort of keywords attached some other way. Simple. Obvious: flexibility. The *USER** can attach whatever meaning he wishes to a filename - with zero additional work, as a file has to have a name. And he could use that info any way he wishes. That is the real beauty of UNIX, and other real OS shells. Flexibility - do what you wish. The user is not limited to what the system designer wants him to do. The MAC has a reasonably good, in fact very good, user interface inside programs. But the top-level shell, the "finder", is excruciatingly bad due to its limitations. Apparently even APPLE recognizes this, as their development environments provide more functionality. So, the bottom line is - provide an info section as part of files directory entries - but allow using any part of it - including the name, with the usual wildcards (or regular expressions) to do searches, copies, deletes, etc.
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