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- From: stan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Stan Twiefel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: At Ease -- File maintenance?
- Message-ID: <86001@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:18:30 GMT
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- yeah.. i'd love to run AtEase in my labs here on campus.. we have a total
- of about 100 macs that I've currently taken care of by hiding all the folders
- and running somethine like OnCue or Apollo to allow users to launch apps from.
- Users may still double-click on a document from their disk to launch the app,
- also. This unfortunately limits us to running sys 6.0.x because an app
- in a hidden folder under system 7 is for all practical purposes not there.
- You cannot launch it by double-clicking on a document. I like what AtEase
- does to prevent users from saving files on our hard drives, and limiting
- access to control panels... but we need to allow users access to their disks.
- Basically, AtEase has oversimplified the mess too much. Now.. if it would
- not completely replace the finder, but instead just remove the hard drive icon
- and prevent user modifications to the hard drive (saving and deleting stuff),
- i'd buy 100 copies in a minute! All the graphical stuff they did in AtEase
- is nice, i guess, but it's not an entirely difficult concept. all they need
- is a standard file window (possibly not closable :) which the admin could
- , with a password, drag aliases of apps into. For that matter, it doesn't
- even need to be in a window.. placing them on the desktop would be fine.
- Just as long as they couldn't be trashed... so.. anybody at Apple (or anywhere
- else...) want to write an AtEase II -- for us lab people????
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- Stan Twiefel The University of Texas at Austin
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