hadgraft@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft) (03/05/91)
In article <38631@netnews.upenn.edu>, sal@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Marcos Salganicoff) writes: > Question: > Let's say I've created a new document group (e.g. termpaper) in the > program manager and then drag a copy of an application (let's say > Write or some such thing) into that folder because I'm want to create > a bunch of related documents that I'm working on. Now, if I fire up > Write from that group and do my business and issue a "save as" command > and quit for the session. Everything is ok except that either: > > 1. In order for me to reopen that document later I have to futz around with > the file mangler (a.k.a manager) to reopen the document. > > or > > 2. I can get the document to show up in the program group by using the > copy command in the program manager and dragging the document in from > the file manager > > What I would _like_ is for windows to be smart enough to automatically > create the document icon in the document group from which I initiated > the app. (like a mac does ... oops I gave myself away) so its sitting > there waiting to be opened the next time 'round. Perhaps that is > asking too much, but a "direct manipulation" user x-face is _supposed_ > to do that kind of stuff automatically. Am I missing something? > I even stooped to reading the directions and that didn't help. > You're confusing the point of program manager. It's NOT meant to work like a Mac. File Manager does that! On a mac, you open folders (directories under DOS), and click on files, just the same as in File manager. program manager is something different. It lets you reorganize your files and applications so that they cross directory/folder boundaries. The Mac will be able to do that under System 7 (available real soon). So, why use program Manager? I use it for 2 main purposes: 1. to group together useful utilities that I don't use often, but where it's handy to know how to get to them when I need them, and 2. to group together documents that I use OFTEN. So I have a group called Word proc which collects a number of different word processing tasks I do regularly (all stored in different directories). I have another called Teaching, which collects a number of different applications (in different directories) which I use for my courses. What do you need to make it work? I use STARTUP.EXE to get things like WINWORD.EXE going in the right directory. I can then open whichever document I need. (It's also possible to open the document with STARTUP). I use File Manager when I want to do a stack of different things in one particular directory. That's how you use the Mac. The only difference is that the Mac has those nice large icons, and a smarter way for renaming files. -- +--------------------------------------+ | Roger Hadgraft +----------------------------------+ | Senior Lecturer | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au | | Dept of Civil Engineering | phone: +61 3 565 4983 | | Monash University | fax: +61 3 565 4944 or 3409 | | Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. +----------------------------------+ +--------------------------------------+