NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/misc/18550

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From: [e-mail] (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Snapshot (was Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:50:25 -0800
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: BC Systems Corporation
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Sam Hulick) writes:
>
> 1) Snapshotting.  It would be much better if the DOS would remember
> where you put things, like the rest of the icon-based DOS's do.

In your pull-down menus, you'll find a Snapshot command.  Use it to your
heart's content.

As for the "rest of the icon-based" systems, I can say that I *much* prefer the
Amiga's snapshotting method over the Mac's (I have a Mac sitting on my desk at
work).  I realize this is personal preference - my preference is that icons
shouldn't snap unless I tell them to, just like file edits aren't written to
disk unless I select a Save command.  The Mac's method doesn't allow you to
undo your new view.  If you accidently clean up a window or select view-by-name
instead of icon, you're sunk since there is no Undo for this operation.

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Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
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