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From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com]
It's not difficult to do, since everything ends up
in
"MyDocuments" as a
default. Now, with very little effort at all, you CAN,
I don't remember that working too well under windows 95 --
possibly it's been fixed since then. I haven't paid much
attention to that part.
indeed, lose a file.
However, if you use the Find command (assuming you know the
name of the file,
or at least an extension), there's some help there. That's
But if you've never seen a computer, how are you supposed to
know what an extension is? Or how do you tell where to "find"
the find command? :)
better than I did
with the Apple "finder," whatever that is...
Yep, "finder" is a pretty stupid name, and so is "chooser," but
no more stupid than "explorer" (any of the three ;) "Excel" --
what does it do again? "Access..." Yep, that's great too. "Power
Point..." It must be a software implementation of a hunting dog.
To be clear, "finder" does actually provide the "find" command
to find a file. Chooser actually does provide a list of "stuff"
and let you "choose" something off of the list (for all that it's
worth :) The names aren't sufficient at all, though.
Excel. It worked
fine, though, at least within the limits of himem.sys and
smartdrv.sys, both
of which were flawed in that incarnation.
Well, you've just hit on my main complaint with windows again...
but we've covered that.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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