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Re: OS/2 Wishlist (Another to add)

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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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Subject: Re: OS/2 Wishlist (Another to add)
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