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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: looking for the trashcan
Keywords: trash trashcan
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.170723.20288@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 17:07:23 GMT
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Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <57865@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
><>Well, yes, but...
><>you can only select as many files as are adjacent in the displayed directory
><>list...  You cannot select umpteen files scattered throughout the display.
><>But, anyhow...
>
>You do this the same way you do it on the Mac: hold the shift key down and
>click on the files. In the mac you drag the last file you click on to the 
>trash, in Win3 you hit the del key... If this doesn't work, I'd be pretty
>dissapointed, as this is pretty standard GUI "language". 
>
>

Not quite right (or at least confusing), shift click will highlight ALL files
between the the current highlighted file, and the one you click on.  To high-
light random files, hold down the ctrl key and click on desired files.


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