john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) (02/01/91)
In <1991Jan30.153036.25723@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu: > In <1991Jan30.100611.6787@lth.se> magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se: > > Folders on the Mac are not in any way less powerful than subdirectories > > under Unix. > But that is NOT true: there is no way on a Mac (using Finder, not MPW) > to go from one open folder, back through the root directory, > and up another multilayered tree into a presently closed directory > directly, in one step. (cd ..\..\graphics\Macpaint\dirty pictures (please > note that Mac folder names can have spaces in them)) The Mac file browzer, as with all Mac interfaces, is fairly easily extended using Inits, CDev, and the like. In fact, there is at least one very popular program that modifies the Mac file browzer. Given this, it seems to me that if "cd ..someverylargeamountoftyping" was needed on the Mac, someone would have provided this capability somewhere along the line. Do you think anyone would really prefer to type a 40 character path name if they could get there in 5 mouse clicks? And since Mac file names can be very long, the path is likely to be many more characters. And then try to remember the exact spelling of all of the folder names. Not likely. Especially not for us dylexics. > This is the most basic, absolutely fatal, flaw of the Mac idea. I think I will toss my mac off of my patio and run out and buy windows 3. -john- -- =============================================================================== John A. Weeks III (612) 942-6969 john@newave.mn.org NeWave Communications ...uunet!rosevax!tcnet!wd0gol!newave!john ===============================================================================