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Subject: Finder Extension Piece O' String
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Date: 24 May 92 15:28:19 GMT
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Piece O' String -- A Finder Extension that remembers your selections
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What IS it?
-----------
Piece O' String is a Finder Extension that let you have the system
memorize and later restore the currently selected icons in the Finder.
To this end, it adds two items to the Extras menu: "Preserve Selection"
and "Restore Selection". Uh, that's all I can think to say about it.
It's pretty simple.

"Features"
----------
Piece O' String will remember your seclections even if you launch another
program and return to the Finder later. Selections are also preserved
when you shutdown. Piece O' String saves you selections to disk in order
to accomplish this. Selections will only remain memorized for the current
Finder session if Piece O' String cannot write to disk.

If the window that contained your selections happens to be closed, or in
the background, Piece O' String will open the window or just bring it to
the foreground, and then select your icons.

Credits, Thanks, Etc...
-----------------------
I got the concept for this from the closing part of the System 6.0 Finder ERS.
It seemed useful, and most importantly, wouldn't take long to implement at
all. Thanks go to Ron Lichty for such a neat idea. The programming task was
also made much easier by Bryan Pietrzak's SmartMacro package for ORCA/M. Thanks
Bryan.

Closing
-------
Piece O' String is FreeWare. Source Code in ORCA/M format is available from
the author upon request. It's also Copyright 1992, Non-Stop Enterprises,
All Rights Reserved.

Um, well, that's all I can think of now... Please direct any bugreports,
anomalies, comments or suggestions to the address below.


I'm...
    Nick Lenz                     GEnie: N.LENZ
    P.O. Box 1606                   AOL: NLenz
    Monrovia, Calif. 91017        I-Net: nlenz@ucsd.edu


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