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Subject: Re: Suggestions
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Date: 13 Feb 91 14:44:31 GMT
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In article <8454@castle.ed.ac.uk> ecwu61@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Renwick) writes:
>
>In article <1991Feb11.124128.2990@cns.umist.ac.uk> vanaards%t7@uk.ac.man.cs
 writes:
>>  Presently there is NO way of undeleting a file - this is a MAJOR mistake.
>>  If you're in business & you accidently delete your current work file 
>>  you've no way of recovering it other that hacking the disk. But with
>>  DOS based systems there's no hassle, I've seem many undelete programs.
>
>	Well I ain't ever used an OS that has a built in 'undelete'
>facility.  I have seen programs such as undel for MS-DROS and Unix boxes
>and Recover for the Archi though.

Have you ever used Quick Unerase from the Norton Utilities on a PC or
the Macintosh? This is the way Recover for the Arch should work. No hassle,
just simply recovering your file from a list of recoverable files.
 I sure would like a utility that did that. Sadly I haven't got time 
(and ideas) to implement a thing like that, so I hope there is some
clever programmer out there who will write this for us. :-)
 
>> Group selection of icons within a window would be useful. If you're familiar
>> with the Atari machines you'll know what I mean. Being able to have a rubber
>> banded selection area would make things a lot simpler when operating upon
>> a lot of files.
>
>	Yuch!!!!!!!   Windows 3 on the PC allows you to do this and it
>make the overall appearence of the desktop look terrible.  I like to see
>the files in nice neat lines and in alphabetical order so I know where
>in a window to look for a particular file.

I think you are discussing two different things here, and are forgetting
on which computer it all originated (The Mac) (Ok, the Xerox Star).
I think rubberbanding is a very good idea. On my mac I always group the files
together that belong together, so I can select them all together. I hate it on
my Arc that if I want 17 files from a directory with 40 entries, I have to
click 17 times on different files. I want to do it in one, or a couple of, 
strokes.
About the second thing: I like to group the files like I want to. I want
the wimp to open a directory with only the files visible I find interesting.
Also I want the wimp to open the directory where I last closed it, so you
can make a nice layout of your desktop.

>	Have you ever used a PC for DTP?  If you had, I'm sure you would
>understand why PC people get excited when they see what the Archi can do.

Have you ever used a Mac for DTP? 
I like Impression a lot, but I still use a Macintosh WORD-PROCESSOR for
most of my DTP work.

Axel.
(I have an Arc for programming, and a Mac for serious work because it works).