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Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)

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From: The Apathist
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 05:09
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Recently sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) said:
>Yeah, I have this same complaint occasionally, especially with
>utiliites like Stuffit (an otherwise fine program).  It spends so much
>time putting up and taking down windows that everything takes twice as
>long as it should (are you listening Ray?).  Also, there really should
>be a way to do a Stuffit *.c on the Mac... picking each file by hand
>is torture.  Anyone do regexp() for the Mac?

What we really need is shift-clicking in the standard file dialogs.
Of course this would change the usage somewhat.  How about a
SFGetManyFiles call?  How long till the next system release?

					--Tom Lippincott
					..ucbvax!bosco!lippin

    "There is no place I know like the land of pure imagination..."
					--W. Wonka
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From: lippin@ragu.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)
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Date: 22 Mar 88 05:09:22 GMT
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