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From: a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Does everybody hate Windows?
Message-ID: <2980@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 20:29:37 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> kearns@cs.columbia.edu writes:
> Is it just because of my Macintosh background, or does everybody
> think the program manager is unintuitive, confusing, and flaky?
> Is the program manager "just another windows program" so that soon
> we might see better "shells"?


     I find the program manager excellent, and just what I need for a home
computer with a packed hard drive and four family members who are users.  Each
child has an Icon with their name, and the child window brought up by clicking
on the Icon gives the programs that they commonly use.  They can get a program
just by clicking on the icon, and the program manager (set up by me) takes care
of the problems such as which drive and directory is the program actually on,
and what the executable file is for a specific program.
     It is the file manager which I find incredibly frustrating and
unintuitive.  I am used to Norton Commander, where it is easy to log onto two
drives with half of the screen displaying each drive.  Drive to drive transfers
or copy commands require far too much manipulation in the File Manager, and the
mouse commands for copying and moving files are not easy to remember.  Let me
see: clicking and dragging an icon copies the file (or is it moves the file)
unless you press Control (or is it Shift or Alt) unless you are going between
different drives at which point the rules don't apply the same way.  Who can
remember this?  Norton Commander at least makes things clear.  If you want to
move a file, click on the Rename.Move box, and if you want to copy click on the
copy box.  I hope Norton gets his act together and makes a Windows 3 version of
Norton Commander so I can dump the silly file manager.  As it is, I am still
using Commander as a DOS program for my more complex drive re-organizations as
they are too difficult to perform with the File Manager.
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Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    a752@mindlink.UUCP