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Article #1238A zillion files in the System Folder
From: Ernst Mulder
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1989 10:27
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1989 10:27
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The problem with the HFS file system is that ALL folders are really
separate tree-entries. So when I create a file INITs or whatever in the
System Folder they can't be seen by INIT 31 which looks only in the
System Folder itself. What I would suggest is a new type of Folder,
maybe give it a different name, which is TRANSPARENT to the
path it's located in. Graphically a bit like this
Folder 1
/ | \
Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 // Map 1 // Map 2
/ \ |
Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7
It's difficult to draw diagrams 'live' :)
Anyway: The 'Folder's are the ordinary kind of HFS folders. What I
temperally called 'Map's are non-HFS folders. So, from Folder 4 I
can see a folder called Folder 7 AND (!!) the contents of Map 1 and
Map 2.
This way I can keep my System Folder (and other folders) 'neat'.
Summary: Why not mix HFS and non-HFS folders?
Hmmm, what icon should it have? Something close to a folder at least,
since it is a kind of folder but the again it should be visible
whether it's HFS or not. Maybe it could just be a folder's property?
I mean something like the finder-attributes?
I hope this letter's not too puzzling. :)
Ernst.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!rcbaem From: rcbaem@eutrc3.UUCP (Ernst Mulder) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text,comp.sys.mac Subject: A zillion files in the System Folder Summary: A new (Old?) type of folder needed. Keywords: Non HFS Folders Message-ID: <481@eutrc3.UUCP> Date: 15 Feb 89 10:27:12 GMT References: <530@h-three.UUCP> Reply-To: rcbaem@eutrc3.UUCP (Ernst Mulder) Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 36