re please help an amiga user find comfort in windows in article t ada og fitz tc cornell edu stlombo eos acm rpi edu steve j lombardi writes by night i m an amiga user by day i work with windows i d be much more comfortable in windows if i had two things a good personal information manager you know a calendar address book reminder list etc rolled into one clean interface i prefer infoselect myself but it is a strange kind of pim a good file manager microsofts is very poor by my standards how about one that has a left and right window and allows file operations between them being able to launch programs from the same interface would be nice as well as text reading and graphics viewing those who are familiar with directory opus on the amiga know what i m looking for well a few things might help you like the file manager better to get more than one window simply double click on a drive icon that it only gives you one window to work with is a fallacy you can drag files between windows to any icon on the tree on the left side of the window and to any drive icon this beats your left and right window as you can have as many open as you wish instead of just two you can launch any app from within file manager by double clicking on the executable s icon you can launch any application and open a document file by double clicking on the document file s icon provided you have associations set correctly this is easily done with the menus the browse capability adds a lot of functionality to so if you name all your text files with txt and point all gif tiff etc files towards paintshop or wingif this takes care of your requirement for text reading and graphics viewing i know someone who prefers using file manager as his shell setting up all the associations you need is the way to do it if directory opus is half as good as file manager then it must be pretty good indeed file manager just needs you to understand how some things are done iskandar taib the only thing worse than peach ala internet ntaib silver ucs indiana edu frog is frog ala peach bitnet ntaib iubacs
