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In article <8778@drutx.ATT.COM> clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward) writes:
>Be in Multifinder
>Have folder open, with By Name line-oriented display.
>Create new file in folder, as by printing to PostScript file
>New file will have 0k indicated size!  (her's was 750k, in actuality)
>Also leads to further confusion as printing twice gets update, so
>original file now has size, newest 0k again.

Multifinder doesn't continually monitor the file system.  It notices
when files are created or deleted (File Manager probably sends it some
kind of signal), and updates its display at those times.  Continuous
monitoring would probably be too much overhead.

>Have folder open, again in By Name display
>change name of a given file
>file name remains in same position in list; no re-sort of names takes
>place.

I suspect this is intentional.  Suppose resorting would cause the file
to be outside the current window; having a file you're working with in
some way suddenly disappear would be quite disconcerting.  A novice
might think that they had typed something that caused the file to be
deleted.  It's better to leave it there out of alphabetical order than
to make it disappear.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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