Brian Chabot said:
>On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jack Hodgson wrote:
>
>> >If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path) be
>> >started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS
>> >only searches the "System" folder automatically. This led to many progra
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jack Hodgson wrote:
> >If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path) be
> >started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS
> >only searches the "System" folder automatically. This led to many programs
> >being copied to the
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, at 3:11pm, Jack Hodgson wrote:
>> If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path)
>> be started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS
>> only searches the "System" folder automatically.
>
> I've been involved with Mac since
Ben Scott wrote:
>If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path) be
>started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS
>only searches the "System" folder automatically. This led to many programs
>being copied to the System folder, just so they wou