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to: Bat Lang
from: paul marwick
date: 1999-09-07 09:45:09
subject: File Managers

Hi Bat

Replying to a message of Bat Lang to paul marwick:

 BL> Try this, Paul, When you want to exit the archive, hit the 
 BL> arrow key. You need to hit  to get into the archive (not a
 BL> selfex), but once inside,  will take you back to the parent of
 BL> the archive (so long as you don't have any stray char's in the bottom
 BL> command line) which one normally does not. So long as that command
 BL> line is clean, the  and  keys will take you to the
 BL> parent or child of the current dir. At least mine is config'd to do
 BL> this, and it is a handy alternative for moving up/down the tree.

:) Yeah, I found that one. At least it provides a means of getting out of an
archive when OS/2 Commander has gone a bit strange... The first couple of
times that happened, I ended up closing and restarting OS/2 C since I could
find no way out...

 BL> Particularly up the tree, where you can be 5 or 6 levels down and
 BL> just 'lean on' the  key and you are back at the root.

I can't decide whether I like that feature or not - I must be a bit sloppy
when it comes to using the keyboard, and I've ended up hitting the left or
right arrow keys several times when I meant to hit the up or down arrows,
which can be confusing...

regards, paul

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