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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 16:48 BST-1
From: ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ofir Gal)
Subject: Re: app_defs.sys
To: gem-list@world.std.com
Message-Id: <memo.813008@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Precedence: bulk
C.J.Ridd@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk said:
>Would there be a problem with having:
> geneva.prefs.file c:\geneva\geneva.inf
>or something similar?
What for? Just let programs save their own default. Ithink many of thiese
overcomplications come from Unix people. We don't need this sort of stuff
in GEM. Apps should look in their own directory for their INF file, so what
is the point of defining it in another file.
abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk said:
>
> > would have no problem with it. But to assign something as dangerous as
> > "Select-All" to it is pure lunacy!
> >
>Why should select all be a dangerous function? Surely all it does is select
>everything. If the program in question then lets you perform a non-recoverable
>operation on every object then the program is flawed.
Kev, since you have joined the list lately, you have missed the ^A
discussion. You are a lucky person :-)
Ofir ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk
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