Jeff Dunlop wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 RJT> Why the heck does the desktop popup have an "Open Parent" option?
 RJT> What is this supposed to do?  It just seemed to lock things up here 
hen
 RJT> I got curious one day and hit it...
 JD> Guess what? It indeed has a parent -- the root directory of 
 JD> your hard drive. It's unfortunate that your computer crashed 
 JD> (or was it perhaps very very busy with many small files?), but 
 JD> it ought to work. 
What's it supposed to do,  drop you to a command prompt?
Maybe it didn't lock up,  maybe it just got rather unresponsive for a bit,  
and I didn't have the patience to wait it out...
 JD> Interestingly, the drive object also has an Open Parent menu 
 JD> item, which appears to do nothing. So, when you get done 
 JD> rephrasing your question in reference to the drive object, the 
 JD> answer is probably along the lines of all objects having a 
 JD> parent, except for some meta-object known as 'root', which can 
 JD> never be opened.
Hmm.  Maybe it will be able to be opened in a future version?  :-)
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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