Re: magic routing tip

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Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> writes:

>"L. Cornelio" writes ...
>> Leaving your system folder on the desktop solves the problem, but there is
>> another way:
>> just change the aux type of the system folder to $00000002

 >    Okay, except ... what problem does this tip solve?

It fixes the "broken" magic routing of the IIGS System 6.x finder.

Magic routing allows you to drop certain "special" filetypes onto
the system folder and they will "magically" deposit themselves
into the correct sub-folder (you may just have to drop it on the
boot disk icon, not sure since I'm at work so I can't test it, and besides,
I never found the feature to be at all useful anyway). The "special"
filetypes are things like NDA's, INITS, CDEV's etc.

When Apple's engineers were testing this feature they all kept
their System folders on the finder desktop, where it always works.
They didn't catch the bug that if the System folder was not on the
desktop, the "magic routing" didn't work.

IIRC, I think it was Brutal Deluxe who discovered the "fix" when
they were trying to upgrade GS/OS, but I may be mixing them
up with someone else from France.

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Eric <chippys@earthlink.net>