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From: scott@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Scott Linn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: User interface(was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <5640016@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Dec 89 17:18:41 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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/ hpcvca:comp.sys.ibm.pc / stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios  valavanis) /  1:34 pm  Dec 26, 1989 /

>you can do this on the mac by viewing files by 'type' and selecting
>all the files with that type with a single mouse-stroke and dragginf
>them to the trash.  i do it all the time.  not only that you can
>>exclude a couple of those files by shift-clicking them out of the
>selection before dragging to the trash.  try doing that on your
>vanilla pc!  the only thing that allows you to do stuff like that on a

In windows (at least 1.03), you can select by extension to delete.

>i agree but so many of these have been addressed so well on the mac
>that i can't help but prefer it.  and windows doesn't compare since
>you have to setup each prog to get it to work properly and not all
>support the mouse nor the fonts and you can't click on files.  i still
>use windows most of the time when on a pc but the fact that i have to
>exit it to run something because i haven't installed it yet and don't
>have the time means something.

Are you sure you use Windows?  I click on files all the time; it works fine!
Re-read your documentation on the WIN.INI file!

Scott Linn