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From: trrrc@rc.rit.edu (Thomas R. Ridley)
Subject: Re: MAC: Contents of Desktop?
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In article <3nom0l$lgr@huey.cadvision.com>, shaun@osgcorp.com (Shaun
Smith) wrote:

> I have proceeded to take the contents of this folder, add the volumes
> available on my Mac, and use this constructed list as the desktop
> contents
> I present in my chooser.
> 
> This appears way to complicated to me.  Can someone inform me as to how
> I can get the desktop contents and where the desktop fits in the Mac
> file system?  Intuitively I expected the desktop to be analagous to 
> the unix "/" directory, but this doesn't appear to be the case.
> 

You have done everything correctly. It's goofy for programmers but "usually"
transparent to users. SOP for Macintosh as long as it's transparent to the users
it can be an odd implementation.
-Tom

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Tom Ridley
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