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- From: ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl (ferdinand oeinck)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Ideas for a new filer
- Message-ID: <966eVB1w165w@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:57:19 CET
- References: <1992Dec11.123536.1328@black.ox.ac.uk>
- Organization: My own node in Groningen, NL.
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- microsoc@black.ox.ac.uk (Paul Gilkerson) writes:
-
- >
- > Actually, you can change what the filer displays in `full info` mode
- > (to a certain extent anyway) by altering it's template file. The
- > filer window contains an icon containing a date format, and possibly
- > other things too (I can't remeber off-hand). I changed the date format
- > (it's something like %d %m3 %ce%yr (?)) to include the day, and exclude
- > the century. I had to change the length of the icon, but it all works
- > perfectly. I doubt if you could change the size of the icon though.
-
- Displaying filenames in the filerwindow with a length greater than 10 is
- possible too. Change in the template file the size of the indirected text
- buffer of the file-icon's (number 3 or 4) to the required size plus one.
- Get a copy of the filer-module from ROM and change the instruction at
- offset 0x19a0 to CMP R2,#<size>. Before starting the desktop, set the
- filer$path variable to point to the directory where the template and message
- files are and rmload the new filer-module.
-
- So now I can see full MSDOS names in my PClinkfs filer window.
- >
- > Paul.
- Ferdinand.
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