Re: Finder feature request

[David A Lyons <dlyons@apple.com>]

In article <jmk3.737162583@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> Jay Krell,
jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>   I'd like to be able to set a default "view" in Finder, w/o any of
those
> Finder.data or Finder.root files. Is this in 6.0.1?

At one point during 6.0 we were going to have a "default view" pop-up in
the Preferences dialog, but instead we wound up making folders without
Finder.Data files inherit the view of the folder they were opened from. 
A Finder.Data-less folder on the -desktop- always opens into by-icon view.

David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc.      |   DAL Systems
Apple II System Software Engineer         |   P.O. Box 875
Internet:dlyons@apple.com                 |   Cupertino, CA 95015-0875

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