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From: akm@geriatrix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Some complaints about Windows (3.0) - any solutions?
Summary: partial solutions
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Date: 5 Jun 90 03:56:33 GMT
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In article <266AD90F.8969@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
> I like the new Windows, but there are a couple of things that bother me. 
>Perhaps they can be changed - if so please let me know.
>1. Whenever I use the notepad, the default file specification is *.txt instead
>of *.* (which I would prefer...).  Can this be changed?  It's a nuisance to 
>always have to change it.

You could associate additional filename extensions with notepad, so
that would expand the number of things you can click on to edit with
notepad. A partial solution, just like the others that follow...

>2. When one uses the clipboard, a carriage return and line feed is added to 
>the end of what is copied.  This is also a nuisance; for example when I send 
>email, I often copy the address with the clipboard; when I then use it in our 
>mailer, I have to edit it by adding in%" at the beginning and " at the end.  
>But if a carriage return is appended, I don't get a chance to do it.  Any
>suggestions?

I surmise that you are using a non-windows comm program. I use WinQVT,
and do precisely what you suggest. WinQVT is available from, among
other places from 35.8.2.1 (clvax1.cl.msu.edu) and Simtel20.

>3.  Is there any way to configure Windows so that on starting up, the File 
>Manager occupies one half of the screen, and the Program Manager the other?
>Why on earth were not the functions of the two integrated into one utility?

That's probably being kept as a goodie for the next upgrade... But you
can use another shareware program called Aporia that will do something
like that. Caveats though. Aporia is not 100% win3 compatible. It has
a system information function that bombs windows. And Windows can't
automatically close it, i.e. when you quit windows with Aporia
running, it will crash windows. However, if you can live with that,
then aporia seems towork fine. One of the things it can do is
associate a window size with an icon, so that if you run the program
from the (Aporia) icon, it comes up in the specified size.

>4. In copying from one directory to another, I first get one of the 
>directories on the screen using the directory tree, move it over to the other
> side
>(after possibly resizing it), then get the  other directory....   Wouldn't it
>be nice if the 2 directories decided on their own to share the screen 
>without any intervention from me?

Two suggestions. First, use the Tile command under _W_indow. (and
forgive me if you already know about it.) Second,
if you have the disk tree open in one window, and a directory in
another, then you can copy files from the directory onto
directories/disks in the disktree window. (Easier for you to try it
than for me to explain it...) I do that, and it saves me a lot of time
opening directories and disks.

kartik



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