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Re: trash can for E/D ---also Mac Partitions possible?
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Halverson <jeff@umn.edu> writes:
Jeff> On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Alan Shutko wrote:
>> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Kaplan
>> <rkaplan@msrad3.med.uth.tmc.edu> writes:
>>
>>
Richard> are there plans for a trash can for E/D?
>> Or, if not a trash can, the ability to multi-select (and
>> multi-delete). It's the thing I miss most from the browser.
Some of the code for multi-selection is already in place. We hope to
clean up the Browser code and make it publicly available when 2.0
ships. That should allow people to make other useful mods to the code
although we'll probably need people to sign a release before we'll be
able to incorporate other people's changes into our Browser.
Jeff> I'd have to third the wish-list on this one. I know the
Jeff> reason you don't have a trashcan is because of Apple's
Jeff> shakey trigger finger on look-and-feel lawsuits... But it
Jeff> is difficult to convince a mac user that executor is easy
Jeff> with the current file deletion methods. I would opt for the
Jeff> ability to just hit "delete" and have the selected file get
Jeff> trashed. (of course with a dialog box that says, "are you
Jeff> sure"-- and multi-select would also help out)
What I do is make a directory in the top level of the volume that I'll
be deleting things from, then open that directory and put it down at
the bottom of my screen and drag stuff into it. I can either leave it
there for later or delete it if I need to reclaim the disk space.
Sort of a "poor man's" trash can.
Jeff> ---Also on a side note:
Jeff> Would it be possible to have a Macintosh partition? Can any
Jeff> of ardi's disk formating routines be able to create a
Jeff> partition? The reason I ask is because ideally I'd like to
Jeff> have a mac partition that could be shared by OS/2 and Linux,
Jeff> then executor could work the same (i.e. same filesystem) in
Jeff> both systems... I know I could just use an .hfv file on the
Jeff> dos partition, but this just seems kind of clunky. (of is
Jeff> it just my warped perception? Should I not be concerned
Jeff> that its an emulated filesystem?)
The program "makehfv" could conceivably be used to turn a disk
partition under Linux into an HFV file by itself. If you are
comfortable with writing directly to a disk partition (if you write to
the wrong one, you will blow away your system), you can do it in the
obvious Linux way, then adjust MacVolumes accordingly. However, I
don't know how to tell Executor to find a raw partition under OS/2, so
I'm not sure that this info helps much. We probably won't do anything
about this sort of thing until after 2.0 is out. Not enough universal
appeal.
Jeff> Jeff Halverson
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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