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Re: Browser limitations



Answering me, Cliff Matthews writes:
>Files and directories will automatically move if they are being
>dragged from one window to another window that represents a folder on
>the same volume and will be copied if the volumes differ.  There is
>currently no way to override that, a feature that we should add soon.

I would be satisfied with a Move menu item, right next to Copy.

>There is no way to select multiple files, although some of that
>functionality has already been built into Browser.  However, HFS_XFer
>can't do it either.

... but HFS_Xfer can specify a standard destination, so moving multiple
files is much quicker. 

My problem is that I mostly use Executor for supporting my friends that 
have Macs. I have Internet access, they don't. This means much file 
moving and copying. Other than moving files, serial port support would 
be the most useful for me (for PPP). 

I would like to also use it to program, but most languages I've found 
require System 7 or an FPU. There are a few exceptions though, some 
useful. I will upload them to ftp://robot.asimov.net/pub/HFV (the HFV
archive) when I have configured them properly. Probably the best of 
these is MacMETH, a Modula-2 system partly written by Wirth himself. 
Sorry, but I'm not a big C fan (I'm good at it though), so I'm not 
testing that language. C'est la vie...

>It's not clear what functionality we'll add before we release 2.0.
>When 2.0 is released we'll make the source to Browser freely
>available, so futher customization can be done outside of ARDI.

Glad to hear it. What language/compiler do you use to make Browser?

>	--Cliff
>	ctm@ardi.com

Brian Hawley
bhawley@luc.edu