Fwd: Re: CAN A MAC MULTI-TASK (The Whole Truth)

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

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Subject:     Re: CAN A MAC MULTI-TASK (The Whole Truth)
From:        Eric Bennett <ericb@pobox.com>
Newsgroups:  comp.sys.mac.advocacy
             comp.sys.mac.misc
             comp.sys.mac.apps
Date:        Mon, 03 Nov 1997 18:30:23 -0400

In article <63ks57$k4q$1@gaia.ns.utk.edu>, veal@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (David
Veal) wrote:

>      I can see why you'd prefer one over the other, but I'd hardly call it
> a "monstrosity."  In a large file list it is very handy to have changed
> files in an expected location rather than scattered among the other files.
> You could sort by date, but if you normally sort by anything else it is no
> less trouble to change the sort for a single window than it is to refresh
> a window you want resorted in alphabetical mode.

So set the view prefs for those windows with lots of files to sort by
date.  Besides, does Windows move a "changed" file to the end of the list
simply because you just wrote an updated modified version of it on top of
the preexisting copy, or does this putting files at the end of the list
only apply when the file is a new inhabitant of the directory and wasn't
there before?

More important, however: what if you want you listing to be alphabetical
at all times, and this really irritates you because you *told* it to sort
alphabetically, but it disobeys?

>      It's just a different way of doing things.

How about "it's an inconsistent way of doing things that conflicts with
what the user specifically told it to do?"

-- 
Eric Bennett ( ericb@pobox.com ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )
Cornell University

Microsoft now has the ability to virtually annihilate any competitive product
it wants by bringing it into the next version of Windows. There's evidence that
they are aggressively seeking to extend that monopoly to the Internet, and
policy makers have to be concerned about it.  Congress has to strengthen the
antitrust laws from time to time, and this could be one of those times. 
- Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah

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