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Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites

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From: Andrew Hersee
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:44
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ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:

>If you have to have a special character, there's nothing to say that
>the filer *has* to display it. The only problem with *not* displaying
>it would be that people might not realise it's there, and forget it
>when using the command line, etc. but in that case you could have an
>option to not display the character (for those who are linkely to
>remember), and what's more you could even extent that to including not
>displaying the '!' for application dirs as well.
>
>Failing that, for extra confusion, you could make the special
>character a hard space - err... perhapse not! :-)

Ooops.
I think you have the wrong end of the stick. The character only exists
in the sprite name not the directory name. So you would have a directory
called 'Games' and sprites called '*games' and 's*games'. Just thought
can't have 'sm*' for small sprite names since the sprite name can only
be 12 characters long thus it would have to be 's*' since the max
filename size is 10 characters.

Andrew 

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Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites
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