Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!prism!willie!rhoward From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Delete in File Manager + other things Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 21:43:11 GMT References: <1991Feb26.084442.86366@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <6326@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <2737@beguine.UUCP> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute Lines: 63 uchuck@pelham.med.unc.edu (Charles Bennett) writes: >In article <6326@rex.cs.tulane.edu> keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating) writes: >>hadgraft@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft) writes: >> >>> Perhaps we should petition MS to sort out File Manager before version 3.1. If you look at the 25 Feb PCWeek, they have a picture of the 3.1 File Manager. It has a tree-next-to-the-directory kind of appearance. The menu bar looks pretty much the same as the 3.0 FM. I am sure there are a lot of features they could add (see below). The problem is that 3.1 may not come out until 1992 (due to TrueType problems). I can't wait that long! I propose that MS release a new FM for 3.0 users for a nominal cost, say $10. I submit that it should be minimal cost because the current FM is a *BUG*. If 3.0 users have to wait a year to get a worthwhile FM, we may just need to go elsewhere for a solution (by why should we even need to???). I think the features below and any others to be added can be addressed by this recommendation; make the FM as much like the Norton Commander as possible. >>> Can I add the following requests: >> >>> 1. Do not delete directory windows just because there are no files in the >>> directory. >> >>> 2. Can we have multiple directory tree windows (one for C:, one for D:, one >>> for A: etc). >> >>> 3. How about a "Printer Setup" option. (This would be a lot easier than >>> starting up Control Panel). >> >> 4. Ability to print out partial/full directory trees, not just contents of >> individual directories. > 5. Ability to rename directories a la DOS 4.0 Shell and X-Tree. 6. A "DOS Command line" at the bottom of the window where I can type most any valid DOS command start an application. If the command generates output open a window to take care of it. 7. Some buttons across the top (a la Excel 3.0) that would let us do things like delete, copy, rename, etc without having to pull down a menu *and* deal with a dialog box. 8. Option for an "expert" mode where it doesn't ask you 2-3 times for confirmation if I want to delete or move a file. If I select 5 files and press the Delete button, trash the suckers! I can deal with the consequences later. (i.e., don't assume I am a fool) Robert -- | Robert L. Howard | Georgia Tech Research Institute | | rhoward@msd.gatech.edu | MATD Laboratory | | (404) 528-7165 | Atlanta, Georgia 30332 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Reality is showing us that perhaps we should do with nuclear | | power the same thing Keloggs is advocating for Corn Flakes - | | Discover it again for the first time." -- John De Armond |