OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Tue Nov 20 09:10:44 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ewing [mailto:greg_at_cosc.canterbury.ac.nz]

> Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>:
>
> > Finder is the Macintosh shell. Best not to confuse the
> users with terms
> > like "file manager," "shell," "interface," "front-end,"

> Those are such dry, boring, Microsoft-sounding names.
> Finder is so much cooler!

Actually, those "dry" names mostly come from long before bill gates had even
thought of writing a bad basic interpreter.

> And it's not so much of a misnomer if you think of it
> the right way. It lets *you* find things -- i.e. browse
> the file system. Also, it finds an appropriate application
> to launch for you when you open a document.

I don't know if I can agree there.

For instance, by allowing you to "browse the file system" and to manage your
files, it will let you loose things as easily as find them. Might as well
call it the "loser." ;)

Now, regarding "finding" an application to run:

What it actually does is read the location of the appropriate application
from the desktop file, by looking it up based on a type/creator attribute
stored in the files resource fork.

I don't think it has to "find" anything for that.

> By the way, System 7 and later Finders do have a
> "Find..." command that will let you search for files
> by name.

Took them long enough, didn't it? :) I can agree here. This command really
does allow one to "find" things, but it's a small part of the functionality
of the program.

Regards,

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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