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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: transient "expert" file view
Message-ID: <387@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 7 Jan 91 07:12:54 GMT
References: <5046@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <5046@idunno.Princeton.EDU> fuchs@czar.Princeton.EDU (Ira Fuchs) writes:
>If you do not have expert mode set in Preferences and you are in the file 
>viewer and you type .xyz (assuming .xyz exists), the file view will 
>change to the "expert mode" and will show all dot files and certain 
>directories which are otherwise suppressed (e.g., bin, dev). My question is:
>is there anyway to restore the "non-expert" mode short of logging off and on?

Just go click it in Preferences.  It applies immediately to the browser
view.  But click it twice, because the .xyz hack does not toggle
the flag in Preferences, so you have to turn Unix expert mode ON and then
back OFF again.

Glenn
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