Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: statement Message-ID: <1278@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 20:50:38 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.1278 Posted: Mon Dec 22 20:50:38 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 19:02:00 EST References: <1107@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <1986Dec20.144752.5348@utcs.uucp> Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA Lines: 31 In article <1986Dec20.144752.5348@utcs.uucp> wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) writes: >>I hate >>being bothered with a bunch of .info files lying around in my >>directory cluttering up the listing of the important stuff there. > >Well, realistically, this is a problem for the CLI user of a workbench >drawer. Not really fair. Sounds like a job for Unix-like 'dot' files (.login, .cshrc etc. ) invisible files that you don't have to see in the CLI unless you specify. >Couldn't agree more. Workbench should certainly put up some sort of >default icon for files without matching .info files. I do like the >ability to hide files from the eyes of the casual user though. Yeah, I mean, like, what kind of 'icon' do you use for a *.info file? (an 'icon' file that is). >Amazingly, no one has mentioned one of the things that bothers me the most >about the current .info scheme. There can only be one .info file per >'real' file. I would like to have two icons that point to the same >executable or tool, with perhaps different options set (i.e. they differ >only in the parameters stored in the .info file). I don't think this is >possible in the current scheme. Anyone know how to do this currently? This sounds like a great idea. Can the Mac do this? Keith Doyle # {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd # cadovax!keithd@ucla-locus.arpa