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From: long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: User interface(was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
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Date: 26 Dec 89 22:08:16 GMT
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In article <6877@tank.uchicago.edu>, stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios  valavanis) writes...
>In article <1830@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>>
>>1. del *.bak
>>	vs
>>   {long sequence of click and drags}
> 
>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
>[...] 

How do you do that?  The selection marquee doesn't work in any non-icon view. 
I've always had to shift-click each file I want deleted, then drag them all as
a unit, which is a major pain. I think this is one area where a CLI is better.

Rich

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