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to: Rod Speed
from: Hamish Moffatt
date: 1994-06-03 16:55:00
subject: directory deleter

Hello Rod!

Wednesday June 01 1994 09:39, Rod Speed wrote to Hamish Moffatt:

 RS> user interface stuff. Much of it is done the way no other system does
 RS> things. Thats never a good idea unless there is a very powerful reason
 RS> for it. Just look at how you get a menu down for example. No other
 RS> system does it like that except spreadsheets. Nuts IMO.

It can be configured to bring the menu down with just Alt, though. Yeah I agree
it's non-standard, but I'm used to it and enjoy it now.

 RS> either. You cant for example delete a subdirectory which has files in
 RS> it, you have to delete the files first. All decent file managers have
 RS> stopped doing it that way now.

Well, 1.2 perhaps. :-) There is an OS/2 version too, of course, and for $55
sysop, it's not too bad.

Regards,
Hamish

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