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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Trascan Imitation
- Message-ID: <92316.093143ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 08:31:43 GMT
- References: <1992Nov02.131019.17066@kub.nl>
- <1992Nov10.180107.1575@access.usask.ca>
- Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Nov10.180107.1575@access.usask.ca>, lowey@jester.usask.ca (Kevin
- Lowey) says:
- >
- [stuff about implementation of a trashcan deleted]
-
- >This doesn't take into account three things:
- [...]
- >2) The Macintosh trashcan empties the trash when the system is shut down.
- > We can emulate this by putting EMPTYTRASH.CMD in the Startup folder,
- > or using the ONEXIT command recently posted to the binaries group to
- > run EMPTYTRASH.CMD at shutdown.
- >
- This "feature" is removed in System 7 I believe. At least I would not like
- to have it. A shutdown should leave the system in exactly the same state after
- reboot.
-
- >3) If the Macintosh starts getting short of disk space, it empties the trash.
- > We could emulate this by detaching a REXX command that wakes up every
- > few minutes, and runs EMPTYTRASH.CMD if the free disk space is below a
- > certain value.
- >
- We have a multitasking sysmtem. If we can't save a document we are working on
- 'cause the disk is full, we can easily empty the trash by hand. If I have that
- safety trashcan I don't want it to leak.
-
- There's another feature that's missing in the above list.
- Imagine you have a 40MB system partition for OS/2. The desktop folder is on
- that partition. You have about 5MB free on that partition. You are trashing
- a 10MB folder on your data partition. OS/2 copies 5MB of data across your
- drives and then says you're out of disk space.
-
- What we need is a trash directory on every drive and a folder like object
- that shows the contends of every trash directory in the system including
- floppies and network drives. (I'm not sure about the trashcan on Mac network
- drives but I bet it works like every other drive)
-
- This is not impossible, but sure it's not only a simple REXX script.
- (Though I hope someone proves the last part of that sentence false)
-
- Michael Bode.
-