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From: jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue)
Subject: Re: System 7 bug
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Date: 31 May 91 12:35:40 GMT

sar26657@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sam Roseman) writes:

>sar26657@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sam Roseman) writes:

>>I don't think this has been brought up before, so here it goes:

[deleted]

>also: about half of my files claim to be aliases- when they are
>double clicked it figures out that their docs or apps and fixes them -
>youd think that apple would get this straight for a released version....

>- Sam

I had this occour with a number of items as well.  The problem is that these
items had the Alias bit checked.  While using System 6, this bit did not
effect you in any way, but in System 7 the files appear to be aliases.

I don't think Apple did wrong by not automatically changing this bit when
System 7 is installed - this way you do not break files that really are aliases.

And regarding your first item, about the Desktop Folder - This is a new feature
of System 7, that enables you to place items into the desktop from within
applications.  However, when you boot from System 6.0.x, you will instead see
the Desktop Folder, in which you can find the items that in System 7 were on
the desktop.  A similar thing is the Trash Folder - this is where items that
were sitting in the trash can be found.

Jason D. Blue
The MITRE Corporation
