[arachne] Re: User-friendliness or lack thereof in Arachne

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:41:15 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> It would be useful if Arachne would warn us when the file being
>> downloaded already exists in the download directory. This function
>> already exists in many DOS functions, for example COPY and MOVE.

> I added this capability several years ago.
> No-one seemed to express much interest in it so I commented it out.

I must have missed the correspondence about it.

> If you would like to give it a try.... it's still in all of my releases.

Thanks Glenn. I shall try it!

>> One feature I would like to see with Arachne is a "browse-n-select"
>> for attachments to emails.

> Same situation as above.
> I added this capability several years ago and no-one seemed to express
> much interest in it.

That's odd! I remember asking about it some time ago and being told that
I should not ask for "Windows-style features".


> --- http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/mailfram.htm ---
> --- (just now re-uploaded for everyone to try) ---

> This 'interface' consists of 4, (count 'em .. four), simple lines.

> <FRAMESET ROWS="20%,79%">
> <FRAME SRC="file://@:*.*" SCROLLING="Yes" NAME=drives>
> <FRAME SRC="file://system\gui\sendfile.ah" SCROLLING="Yes" NAME=sendfile>
> </FRAMESET>

> The top frame displays the 'accessible drives' in which you may 'browse
> to any file anywhere on your system.
> The bottom frame displays 'sendfile.ah'.
> Browse to file you wish to attach, 'rightclick' or Shft+Enter on the
> filename to copy its location to the clipboard.
> Place the cursor in the appropiate attachment field and hit Ctrl+V
> to paste the file location into that field.
> Edit the field to delete 'file:' from the start of the file location
> that was just pasted-in.
> Browse to the next file you wish to attach and repeat the process.

Yup, almost as simple as it could possibly be!



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