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- From: johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Humpal)
- Subject: Re: bug ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.165512.4356@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <BuM1oL.Gnt@tik.vtt.fi>
- Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:55:12 GMT
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- In article <BuM1oL.Gnt@tik.vtt.fi> Jan.Lucenius@tel.vtt.fi (Jan Lucenius) writes:
- >
- >I was selecting View - all files from the WB menu, but for deleting
- >some extra files I used either the "execute command" from the menu
- >or the Shell (don't remember which) (that is easier when there are
- >many files to delete which begin with the same name than to choose
- >the icons). The delete command was executed successfully, (though it
- >urkes me that there are tens of resident commands that I never use,
- >but the most usual: list, copy, delete are not resident by default)
- >but the pictures of the files still remained in the window, even if
- >you shut the window and reopen it!
- >
-
- No, not a bug, just a misunderstanding. Workbench is not Finder, and the
- icons are all little individual files with a .info suffix. If you use
- the shell or "execute command" menu item, you want to tell Amiga to do
- something like "delete ram:file#?" (without the quotes). This will
- get rid of all files in Ram: that start with "file" and end with anything,
- including the icon .info files.
-
- --
- -John
-
- John J. Humpal -- johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu -- short .sig, std. disclaimer
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