Re: Not quite (not yet) NB

[Dorothy Day <day>]

Julie,
        I'm about to be gone for two weeks, but will try to help a bit.
In Win95, select Windows Explorer. If you have an Explorer icon on your
desktop, double-click on that. By default you'll get a Mac-like display
of the drives (and Desktop, Control Panel, and Dialup Networking) as
drive and folder icons. If you want to view them with more information
than that, you select View from the Menu bar and select List (to see the
names of all folders/directories and files) or Details (to see size,
date and other information).

        If you want the Explorer display to show a tree, you have to
customize it; I don't believe it normally does. Right click on the
Explorer icon, and select Properties, then the Shortcut tab. From some
article I read, I put this string in the Target window:

C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /e,/n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}


Don't ask me to explain what those parameters all mean; right now I
don't have the original article that told me, but I do know it has to be
exactly like that, punctuation and all (though maybe not the codes in
parentheses at the end? --not sure.) That causes the window to display
with a tree on the left and files & folders/directories on the right.

        I've also created a desktop icon for drive A:, and its
Properties/Shortcut/Target windows has this:

C:\WIN95\EXPLORER.EXE /e,/n,/root,A:\

Love those Windows tips books and magazine articles!

        Happy holidays to all!
        Dorothy



On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, DR.J.S.MEISAMI wrote:

> > Reply-to:     Dorothy Day <day>
> > Subject:       Re: Not quite (not yet) NB
>
> Dorothy,
>
> I'm attempting  (!) to reply off-list (attempting, because WinPMail
> seems to offer about 5% of the options that plain vanilla Pegasus
> does; one step forward and about 18 giant steps backward?).
>
> I have looked at Windows\Command, which isn't very enlightening;
> various thingies come up with "missing parameter", or some such thing
> (like .sys; also deltree, which I assume would let me look at my
> tree, if there is such a thing?). All my attempts to find a "tree" in
> W95 have, so far, failed; where on earth might it be?
>
> I really need to install NB to work with over the Xmas break (yes, I
> know I've left things too long, but "real life" seems to impinge more
> and more...). Any advice?
>
> Thanks, and happy holidays!
> Julie


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Dorothy Day
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Indiana University
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