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- id PAA15089; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 15:27:51 -0800
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 15:27:48 -0800 (PST)
- From: Philip Zeyliger <vzvz@netcom.com>
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- Subject: "Desktop" Idea
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- The Macintosh has a Desktop. It is a weird device that can store anything
- and you can't figure out what drive the files stored there are from.
- Executor did not program a desktop and is probably right not to.
- Nevertheless I think there should be some kind of lowest level of the
- disk structure under the drive. Why? I, probably like many other
- E/D users, have multiple hfv drives. I also have 4 hard drives (C: - F:)
- In order to switch from one hfv drive to another hfv drive I often have
- to scroll through all the dos drives. Since Executor is still quite slow
- on opening the big D: and E: drives (dir /w takes more than a page), this
- process is cumbersome.
-
- A solution? If ARDI could make something under the drives, that JUST
- contains the drives, no other files, that is created at the beginning
- of each session (to include floppies), then we could go down to that.
- Then we would select the drive and save.
-
- -- Philip Zeyliger
-
- P.S.: VIM 3.0 now works. (I did experience some crashes though.)
- P.P.S: I have run 2 benchmark tests. I think if someone created a little
- FTP space where we can drop maybe, exported data off, (or text) someone
- can create a nice Excel spreadsheet that would hold data to many computers
-