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From: davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Sad
Message-ID: <3130005@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 90 21:46:38 GMT
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# / hplsla:comp.windows.ms / deisenb@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David I Eisenberg) /  7:27 pm  Jun  8, 1990 /
# Alas, I am saddened once again...  Windows 3.0 is probably the nicest
# working environment I've ever used on this heavy thing sitting next to my
# bed, but it's the little things that frustrate me.  . . .
# Am I too used to XWindows?

In my opinion, yes, you are too use to a real window environment (X-Windows)
that show up many flaws in a pseudo window environment (MSWindows).  But, to
MicroSofts credit, their window environment as so drastically improved (from
version 1 to version 2, and now version 3), that it makes one far more
tolerant of its short comings (which use to be major, and are now mostly
minor) and thus able to work in it a while.  But my window environment of
choice on a PC is still DESQview, for then I do not expect quite so much from
it (as it is a text-based window environment, and provides better multi-
tasking than MSWindows) as I am use to in my UX-based X-Window (graphics-
oriented window) environment.  I am impatiently waiting for DESQview/X,
which will provide not on an X-server for the PC (in a multi-tasking,
windowing environment that will allow me to run old DOS programs) but will
also provide for X-clients on the PC.  But that is another issue...

In line with the "little things" that irritate me.  A simple one is the 
copy/move under File Manager.  It is inconsistent.  If I select a file in
one directory and tell it to copy to another directory, if the two directories
are on the same drive it does a move.  (You have to use the CTRL key in
combination with the mouse to mean "copy").  But if the two directories are
on separate drives, then it does a copy.  (And I can't figure out how to make
it do a "move", that is copy from first directory on first drive to second
directory on second drive and then delete original.)  I would expect that
move is move (irregardless if it is same drive or not) and copy and copy
(irregardless if it is same drive or not).