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- From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- Subject: Re: Create a directory(object) from DRIVES?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.054301.5152@usl.edu>
- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- References: <exujlg.132.0@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 05:43:01 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <exujlg.132.0@exu.ericsson.se> exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier) writes:
- >Don't laugh - I've got an OS/2 2.0 user (actually, our applications
- >programming manager) here at work who is new to OS/2. He asked me
- >how he could create new directories from within the Drives folder in
- >the WPS.
- >
- >"Simple." says I. "Just click on the upper left button in the window of
- >the drive you want it on, select Create Directory, and type in the name of
- >the directoryyou want to create." Of course, I had up to that time used
- >only the'real man's' method to create directories - from the command line.
- >
- >So he tries it, and guess what: no 'Create Directory' menu option. So I
- >look everywhere - command reference, the FAQ, tutorial, and can't find it.
- >If a programming manager and an network systems manager can't figure it out,
- >how are our regular users going to figure it out when we unleash OS/2 on an
- >unsuspecting public? Surely it's so obvious that we can't see the forest
- >for the trees!
- >
- >Help!!!
-
- Have you tried dragging a folder template to the Drive icon? I think that
- works. But lack of a 'create directory
- _is_ atrocious.
- >Jon L. Gauthier Ericsson Network Systems, Inc
- >EXU/IS/TP Systems Programmer P.O. Box 833875
- >+1 214 997-0157 Richardson, TX 75083-3875
- >
- >Disclaimer: "My opinions are my own - my employer would take the 5th on
- > everything I say." Surely it's been said before!...
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-
- --
- Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- " BERLIN WALL FALLS. 3 BORDER GUARDS LOSE JOBS. CLINTON BLAMES BUSH! "
- -George Bush, '92 Republican nomination acceptance speech
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