NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/acorn/tech/593

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From: [e-mail] (Ian Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites
Date: 12 Nov 1992 11:17:40 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mik Davis) writes:
>  If we must have a 'special character' to mark a directory which has an icon
>then can we have somethin unobtrusive like '-' NOT '*' or '?' etc. "~' might
>be quite usefull...
>

If you have to have a special character, there's nothing to say that
the filer *has* to display it. The only problem with *not* displaying
it would be that people might not realise it's there, and forget it
when using the command line, etc. but in that case you could have an
option to not display the character (for those who are linkely to
remember), and what's more you could even extent that to including not
displaying the '!' for application dirs as well.

Failing that, for extra confusion, you could make the special
character a hard space - err... perhapse not! :-)

Ian

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