🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <dke-2303960730300001@adnline15.adnc.com>,
David K. Every <dke@adnc.com> wrote:
>In article <4iuhj8$eue@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi K.
>Swamy) wrote:
>
>> I've tried using various GUI file managers and I always find myself
>> wasting more time scrolling on the down arrow buttons because the
>> number of files is huge. 
>
>Then you need to organize better. (Something that is easier on a GUI and a CLI)

What is easy for some is difficult for others and vice versa.
I already have everything organzed well. 

>> Some file managers support the page
>> down key, but not all do.  Then there is the problem of what program
>> the file is linked to.  When you click on the file it launches
>> an associated application right?  Can you have multiple app links?
>> I heard OS/2 did this, but I don't know if the MacOS does.
>
>Yes & No. If the Mac does NOT have the App that created it, it pops up a
>list of Apps that CAN read that doc type (through automatic translators).
>You chose.
>
>You can also set it up to AUTOMATICALLY open a particular type to a
>particular app, and do the translation automatically. 

I know that but what I want to do is this.  I have a gif and use three
different programs on that gif.  I have all three of those programs.
With a command line I do xv file.gif or xpaint file.gif or convert file.gif
etc.  Can I do a special click on the file and have it display the possible
programs to use to load the gif or am I stuck with the one that created
it.   Remember, I have all of the programs.

>You can also do the same for PC files whith the ".txt" suffix thing. So
>that PC files will be automatically loaded into the app of your choice.
>(Otherwise it will give you a list of translators/apps).
>
>Also you can drop the file on ANY applications icon that can recognize
>that data type. For most power Mac users (or is that Mac power users?!)
>they have an icon bar on the bottom of the screen with the apps they use
>represented, and they can drop the same file type onto any app that can
>accept that type.

Yes, I could do that to with the Looking Glass desktop in Caldera, but
I don't like drag and drop myself and try to keep my screen as free
of clutter as possible.  I have no icons, just an icon menu but it's
hidden until I click my right mouse button.

Ravi
--
Ravi K. Swamy                http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/
rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu         root@genom.com