Invisible files in OS 9

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/30/05 10:42 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, J. Landman Gay  wrote:
> 
> 
>>What gets me is that Apple didn't include a native visibility command in
>>AppleScript. Weird. And the other thing that gets me is that most of the
>>OS 9 file flags can be set with "setResource" except for visibility.
>>Hmph. Grumble.
> 
> 
> Wanna know what gets me?  Thinking back on how much time I lost restarting
> MacOS after a crash.  Did something that locked up the system and then sat
> around and waited for 5 or 6 minutes to get going again.  Must have been
> countless hours spent waiting for the cursor to change from a watch to a
> pointer...

Yeah, I remember the Unix guys laughing at us about that. It is one 
thing I sure don't miss, and I'm almost willing to forgive the Quartz 
graphics slowdown as a tradeoff.

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