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From: ccrms@ucdavis.UUCP (Michael Shulman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Multiple Files and Standard File Package
Message-ID: <69@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 12:47:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 12:47:46 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 08:12:28 EDT
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Organization: University of California, Davis
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> Here's a subjective user interface question....
> The Standard File Package does not explicitly support this; you can
> only select one file.
> 
> What is the best way of specifying a group of files?  
>
> Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
> ARPA:	Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K	uucp:	seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim
> CompuServe:	74176,1360	audio:	shout "Hey, Tim!"

I think that the best way to specify a group of files is the way that
the finder does it: Shift-Click to select multiple files. This way, the
files that you have selected  would show up in an inverse bar, and you
could easily see which files have been selected.

-- 
                  Michael Shulman
                  Microcomputer Consultant
                  University of Calif, Davis
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