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From: marc@CAM.ORG (Marc Boucher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New version of VLT?
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.031104.1931@CAM.ORG>
Date: 25 Aug 90 03:11:04 GMT
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dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell) writes:

>In article <31054@unix.cis.pitt.edu> stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu 
>(Eric G. Stern) writes:
>|
>|                      One thing I noticed about the new version is
>|that there is no menu item to change the directory prior to receiving
>|a file.  Am I correct that the new version has no way of doing this,
>|or is there a way to accomplish this?
>|

>     The "Change Directory" menu item is now in the VLT menu.  They
>moved it because the transfer protocols are now external, instead of
>built in.

Nope. I advised Willy Langeveld during beta testing to move it to the VLT menu
because the function changes the current directory of the vlt process, a
parameter that affects more than just the receive directory for file transfers.

an excerpt from the vlt beta logfile:

:From 4.717 to 4.763:
:--------------------
:
:....
:- The Change Directory menu item was moved from the Transfer menu     
:  to the VLT menu: it changes the programs default directory globally,
:  not just the default for downloads.
:....

>                                    Seizure later,
>				    --dds

>Dale D. Snell      dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM      74756.666@compuserve.COM
>"Life *is* pain, Highness!  Anyone who says otherwise is selling something."
>                                    -- The Dread Pirate Roberts

Marc.

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