Murray Lesser wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 ML> 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...
 ML> Hi Roy--
 ML>     What it does probably depends on what version you are 
 ML> running.  I am running Warp 4 plus FixPak 5.  Your post aroused 
 ML> my curiosity, so I tried it.  What I got was the "tree view" 
 ML> popup for my boot partition; the same as if I had clicked on 
 ML> the "Drives" object and then on the boot-partion object.  
As it turned out,  so did I when I tried it subsequently.  I've done a bit of 
tuning on that machine,  and things seem to be working a little better than 
they were,  so I'm not sure what exactly the change was that made such a 
difference here.  When I'd tried it before I guess I just assumed that it 
"locked up" but it could also have been responding very slowly,  at that 
me.
 ML> I suppose if you were using a system with multiple desktops 
 ML> (there are such utilities available) you would get the "master" 
 ML> desktop.
I've seen mention of such utilities.  What sorts of things do you think 
they'd be good for?
 ML>     To see the "official" explanation of what "Open Parent" is 
 ML> supposed to do (at least under Warp 4):  Open the desktop menu, 
 ML> put the mouse pointer on the "Open Parent" menu entry, hold 
 ML> down mouse button one (the left one unless you have changed 
 ML> it), press the F1 key, and then release the mouse button.
Help off a menu entry by hitting F1 while you're holding the button,  eh?  A 
neat trick,  and I'll have to try and remember that one.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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