Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!news From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Browser auto-update Message-ID: <1989Aug11.172044.3709@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 11 Aug 89 17:20:44 GMT References: <7324@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 16 In article <7324@microsoft.UUCP> t-jondu@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan Dubman) writes: >Is it possible to configure the Browser to automatically update whenever there >is a change in any of its directories? Manually updating is a pain. >Clearly this is not the ideal situation. The browser already does a reasonable job of discovering that what it is displaying is not conformant with filesystem reality. (How's that for a sentence?) I vote for a workspace default that tells the browser not to change its title, but rather to update itself when it notices that things have gone bump in the night. That way, we have the best of both worlds. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 244-1765