Hello Karl!
21 Feb 98 01:20, Karl Barnfather wrote to Hans Mangold:
 HM>> Tom, that's not a good idea.  Neither File Manager nor Program
 HM>> Manager can deal with Win95's long filenames.  The W95 DeskTop
 HM>> and Explorer take a little getting used to, but once you've
 HM>> mastered them, you'll =never= want to go back to the pre-historic
 HM>> File / Program Manager.
 KB> Me personally... I still use XTree Gold for my file management. Even
 KB> if it's not Win95 Long Filename compat. I'll use ZTree if I need
 KB> Win95 compatability, which is not very often, since I tend to stick
 KB> with 8.3 names.
Karl, that's still inviting trouble: while =you= may stick to 8.3 names, 
Win95 and other programs do not.  :-(
 KB> There are plenty of things with Win95 FM that I can't stand. Not
 KB> being able to use filespecs, not being able to send files to a
 KB> specific directory without having that directory open on the screen or
 KB> without adding the specific directory to the "SendTo" folder and Cut
 KB> and Paste is not *my* idea of convenience when it comes to files.
Karl, there is a =simple= utility that will allow you to move/copy to any 
folder; it's called Any Folder and is part of the =great= "PowerToys", 
written by MS employees (on their own spare time!).  There are a bunch of 
other =very= helpful utilities in the PowerToys and it's available free from 
MS, any of the popular shareware sites and many better BBSs.  I consider 
these utilities, especially "Tweak U.I." mandatory; frankly, they should have 
been incorporated into Win95 right from Day One.
Hint: the Powertoys are in a self-extracting zip file POWERTOY.EXE; there 
have been many upgrades since they were first introduced in the Fall of '95; 
some versions did not contain the aforementioned "Any Folder", but the more 
recent versions do once again. AFAIK, latest version is POWERTOY.EXE  209,241 
11-17-96 10:32p.  After you have extracted the files, right-click on 
INSTALL.INF and select "Install".... piece of cake. :-)
 KB> Not having the file hilite scroll from the very right of a window
 KB> down to the next file on the left of the window one line down (This
 KB> one should have been COMMON SENSE).
Sorry, you've lost me; not sure what you mean....
 KB>  Your right though. It's better than Win3.1 FM...
Yup, and don't forget that it's one of the very few tools that will preserve 
all attributes when copying / moving files and directories. :-)
Cheers, Hans
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