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Article #17354Re: OS/2 Wishlist (Another to add)
From: Name withheld by request
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 21:07
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 21:07
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wookie@panix.com (Steve Houle) writes:
>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.
[some stuff deleted]
>>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
>--
>Steve Houle ...is: wookie@panix.com
Actually I was thinking of something like a template that could be
simple file settings could be configured on that would change either the
complete contents of the folder or just marked objects.
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I can handle going out in a "blaze of glory", but going in a puff of
smoke and a dull thud, just doesn't cut it!!
anon1f04@nyx.cs.du.edu ----- A.K.A. Doc
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