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Richard May <rpm@sys.uea.ac.uk> wrote about opening a settings notebook
        that affects common functions only of multiple selected objects:
>
>There are times when this would be useful, for example I tend to copy a lot of 
>things temporarily from CD to disk, then when I want to delete them, I have to 
>manually remove the read only flag on each one, before I can dlete them.

Ummm.  Personally, I'd use the command line for that.  Or at least Norton
Commander.  The drive objects aren't very fast.

>If you were to do this it would have to give a reduced notebook that only gave 
>options that made sense to be changed globally.

The problem, from a WPS standpoint, is that each object is going to have
to figure out what funtions it shares with all those other objects.  The
only real good way to do that is to match up the pages in the notebooks. 
Even with that simplification, it is going to take time. 

I think your idea below is a better way of handling this actually. 
Probably much simpler to code too.  <grin>

>I saw a very nice util on the Archimedies that could be configured with a 
>particular set of file attributes, and then any files who's icons were dragged 
>onto it, would have their attributes set to those off the utils. config..

The WPS will do drag and drop.  I don't know of any utility that does
that, but there is no reason it couldn't be writen.  Hmmmmm.  Actually, I
like that idea a lot.

Wook
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Steve Houle                               ...is:    wookie@panix.com