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- Clifford T. Matthews writes:
- > FileMaker and a few other programs (Finale comes to mind)
- > want to write scratch files at the top of the "volume" that
- > they're found on. If you run them on a Mac, and you have a
- > hard drive named "Disk", and you have FileMaker in a
- > subdirectory named "FileMaker", the scratch files get
- > written in "Disk" and not "FileMaker".
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- >
-
- > I've spent a bit of time thinking about a way to trick these
- > aberrant programs, but haven't figured out anything
- > yet.
-
- >
-
-
- I would like to define "drives" for Executor - similar to SoftPC. That
- way, I can have a shared system "volume" in
- /LocalApps/Executor.app/ExecutorVolume, and then personal "volumes,"
- say, ~/Library/ExecutorVolume and /. That way, if a program wants to
- write to the top of the volume, it will write it to the top of that
- defined volume (and in most cases,
- /LocalApps/Executor.app/ExecutorVolume).
-
- I find myself trying to manuever in those awkward Mac open panels too
- much; I wish I could hit ~username/filename and so on. The Mac file
- interface wasn't intended for the huge number of subdirectories so
- pervasive in UNIX. How about drag and drop filenames into the dialog
- boxes? :-)
-
- While I'm at it, why not have HFS_XFer be a NeXTSTEP app? Does it
- *have* to be a Mac one? If it was a native NS app, it would be faster,
- have a better GUI, and (maybe) could run alongside of Executor. As it
- stands, running the two at the same time seems to really slow down the
- system, and I get occasional file corruptions.
-
- Happy New Year!
-
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- Bill Chin, NeXTSTEP Developer, PRC Inc.
- VP Communications, Washington Area NeXT Users Group
- Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International Technical Staff
- bchin@nextsrv1.andi.org - NeXTmail welcomed
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