Excerpted from a message dated 04-26-98, Roy J. Tellason to all:
RT>Why the heck does the desktop popup have an "Open Parent" option?
RT>What is this supposed to do?  It just seemed to lock things up here
  >when I got curious one day and hit it...
Hi Roy--
    What it does probably depends on what version you are running.  I am
running Warp 4 plus FixPak 5.  Your post aroused my curiosity, so I
tried it.  What I got was the "tree view" popup for my boot partition;
the same as if I had clicked on the "Drives" object and then on the
boot-partion object.  I suppose if you were using a system with multiple
desktops (there are such utilities available) you would get the "master"
desktop.
    To see the "official" explanation of what "Open Parent" is supposed
to do (at least under Warp 4):  Open the desktop menu, put the mouse
pointer on the "Open Parent" menu entry, hold down mouse button one (the
left one unless you have changed it), press the F1 key, and then release
the mouse button.
    Regards,
        --Murray

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