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Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, hattons@CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil produced:
Aehm, WHICH 'dialog box for file manipulation' ? I use the bash (and fvwm2). If I want to create a directory, for example, I type mkdir directory.
Yea, I can open a terminal window and create the directory that way, and then refresh the dialog box. I find this inconvenient.
What I am talking about is the box that pops up when I try to download a file in Netscape, for example.
Now I have to start Netscape ... usually *I* prefer lynx :-)
You can get this dialog box by going to any web page and clicking "file|save as". This is the same under openwin, cde, and kde. I believe it is also the same under fvwm.
Aaah. Now that's Netscape to blame, or Motif. Netscape as a program could of course choose to do it differently; Motif is a graphics library that runs unter a lot of unixes and so the look & feel is quite the same everywhere. Actually, there's no reason to do things that way but for custom ... they are just done this way usually. And people see the same thing, no matter which UNIX they have to use, if it's Motif. So they are done this way.
Well I guess I meant Motif of OpenLook.
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