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From: elmanad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Another project suggestion...
Summary: Thanks...
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.083858.2312@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Apr 91 08:38:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.071441.28618@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr5.011256.8082@unixg.ubc.ca>
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Thanks to all those who e-mailed me and told me about several
solutions to the problem I described in the initial post (the need for
a tree-menuable interface like Progman)  Most people told me to try
"folders2.zip", which is available on cica in the /pub/pc/win3/util
directory.  I did try it.  It seems to do it, but it's a little slower
than ideal for what I wanted, and for some reason it seems to have a
fairly limited choice for icons within its folders , and I was
apparently unable to use my 500+ icon collection with it.  Otherwise,
it seemed to work ok...Not that I gave it particularly huge testing,
just a quick look.
I have tried Aporia, another suggestion I received, in the past -- I
didn't really like it all that much, but I've been considering giving
it a try for a few days rather than the 10 minutes or so I actually
gave it last time... :-)

Finally, the one program that was suggested to me that I really liked
was the PubTech File Manager.  This nifty program looks a lot like a
Mac, but the icons are apparently customizable.  But it has directory
windows with icons for each file, point-and-click file renaming, etc.
Unfortunately, the program was a crippled demo version and the actual
software costs $99.95, which is more than my budget can handle right
now.

But if anyone needs a file manager like this, it did look useful and
pleasant to look at.  You might try the demo -- it's also on cica in
the same directory as folders2.zip and aporia14.zip as "pubtech.zip".


Again, thanks to those who e-mailed me and posted, and if anyone has
any more ideas, please let me know!

Adam Elman
elmanad@leland.stanford.edu