Re: mac filing system

["Andy Turnbull" andyt@xxxxxxxx]

I think maybe I'll give up, and stick with windows. Anybody got anything bad
to say about the Dell mini 10? I know it needs an external cd drive, but
otherwise?


andy t

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raphael Tennenbaum" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: mac filing system



On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:22:01 -0400, Andy Turnbull wrote:


Even when everything else I'm working on is in the same directory,
it wants to search the whole machine.

Things are hard to find because when I use the search command, (the little
magnifying glass doohickey on the top-right) it just gives me names, and I
have to put the cursor on the names, one by one, to find out where the
files

are. I have to really want something to find it on the mac, because
otherwise I may forget why I wanted it before I find it.


there are a lot of issues here, however I can't imagine there's not some
way of

managing symlinks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

in Linux I use these -- along with a plain old SUBST command in the batch
command with which I start editor.exe -- with XyWrite under Dosemu to
represent


/home/public/raphaelsXyWriteStuff

as

L:

along with subdirectories....

-rafe t.





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