Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpda!hpwala!hpavla!pfeifer From: pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: looking for the trashcan Message-ID: <16980010@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> Date: 19 Sep 90 14:34:20 GMT References: <3729@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Avondale Division Lines: 18 >/ hpavla:comp.windows.ms / aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) / 3:40 pm Sep 18, 1990 / >In article <1990Sep17.222019.13015@mercury.cair.du.edu> jvilhube@diana.cair.du.edu (Extremely Gonzoid) writes: > >BTW, how does the File Manager know when a file has appeared/disappeared? It >seems to be able to catch any changes from any application, and even from DOS >sessons if a SYSTEM.INI flag is set. Is there a message passed to the FM from >Windows? I tried to Spy on it, but either missed it or it was a WM_USER+???. > >Aaron Wallace >---------- Which SYSTEM.INI flag? I regularly un-zip files in a DOS box, but have to manually update the File Manager window. Just tell me to RTFM if its in one of the extra documentation MS provides in the READMEs. Mark