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From: grantk@manta.NOSC.MIL (Kelly J. Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: building group files, sharing colors
Message-ID: <1559@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 27 Dec 90 01:10:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation
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Howdy networld

First, I want to thank whoever posted the MSJ color scheme.  I changed 
it just slightly, and it is now very easy on my eyes (your eyes may vary :-)

Secondly, I think it's good for us to share color schemes with each other.
I would suggest, however, that we share them in control.ini fashion rather
than system.ini.  Just a small thing, but the control.ini line is much
easier to grab and use.  Just a suggestion.

Thanks also to people who have posted about mounting NFS printers as
LPTx.OS2.  This worked like a charm (as well as the winnfs.exe to make
bogus drives dissappear), and makes NFS really work well with windows.

Lastly, a request:  I would like to be able to have a program (BUILDGRP.EXE,
for example) that I could point at a directory, and have it grab 1) all files,
or 2) all files with windows-smart extensions, and place them into a .GRP
file.  I don't know the format of group files (looks awful though), and I
don't have the SDK (but I am a C programmer).  It would seem to be a fairly
simple program to write, and I would find it useful (yes, I'm too lazy to 
build these groups by hand), and even a little more mac-like (please, no
flames.  I'm a PC person from way back, but I do recognize a good inter-
face when I see it.)  Actually, I suppose I would like a shell to replace
progman.exe (who wouldn't :-)) that would have a mac-like display of icons
representing the current directory (maybe a future hack to fileman, 
Microsoft ?)

(Gosh this guy likes to parenthesize statements)  :-)

Well, any answers, questions, comments, etc, please email
or post as appropriate.  Thanks for the bandwidth.

Kelly
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