Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> When it asks the first time if you want to clobber files with the same 
>> name, and offers "Yes", "No", and "Yes to all", hold down the shift key 
>> and click "No".  I think it's the shift key.
> 
>   I thought Windows was supposed to be user-friendly?
> 
>   In Linux obscure key combinations are usually at least *documented*
> somewhere.

MS seems to think that the appropriate place to handle files is from 
within the applications that create them.  The ability to grab your data 
at the file level appears to be something that MS doesn't want the 
common user to be able to to at will.  Take, for instance, the way they 
make it easy to put streaming video into a page, without giving you an 
easy way to save that video to where you can find it whenever you want 
it, so that you don't have to download it every time you want to view it.

The reason you have just the three choices is, I suspect, because the 
MessageBoxEx() API call allows for only up to three buttons, and the 
programmerswho wrote Windows Explorer were too lazy to whip up a dialog 
box with the necessary number of buttons.

Regards,
John

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