I said TweakUI from MS does that but it's really one of the free Powertoys from MS.
TweakUI is one of the Powertoys and allows you to change quite a bit on your XP system. Another Powertoy installs a "Command Prompt Here" entry when you right click on any directory in Explorer. Choosing that opens up a DOS Window at that directory location.
Since I've been using DOS since the first versions came out (from MS) I doubt that. ;-)
But I wish I were as young as you seem to think I am.
Robert
I have my Medicare appointment in one week... do you?
...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Well...AARP keeps sending me sign-up offers. But after what they did with the prescription drug bill I'll pass.
Robert
This Camtech site has several other useful utilities. Copy-this-path adds a command to your right-click context menu that will do what you want.
-- Thaas
Since no one else has chosen to answer your first question, I'll make a stab at it. I don't know the details in this particular case, but I can make an educated guess.
The Unix filesystem can serve as a remarkably good kind of low-budget database. And when Unix is upgraded, the database system is upgraded as well, so you don't have to screw around with waiting for upgrades to match the OS.
This fact has been used by many people to avoid upgrade problems, so much so that it's now an "idiom" of the "language." Paul Graham remarks that it was the underlying database used in getting Yahoo Stores up and running.
Frequently deep directory structures reflect this database-oriented attitude, just as in many programming languages, there are careful namespace conventions, so that code I write in Java, for instance, to do work in projective geometry, is in the package
edu.brown.cs.jfh.geom.projective
even though it could all probably be quite safely in the package "jfh". Of course, that's only safe until I write a second Java class called "Project", meaning "this project I'm working on" rather than "Projective Geometry Tools". Then I get a name clash. So good discipline tells me I should use the naming conventions to save myself trouble later.
It's sorta like using those .01uF caps across the power supply to my logic chips, even though it seems to ME as if the first one at the front of the circuit should do the job for the whole board. But that's because I don't have (even slightly!) the mindset of a circuit designer. It's simply good housekeeping of a different form. In the words of Asterix and Obelix, "C'est une autre culture."
--John Hughes
PERFECTO!!! Thanks!
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
[snip]
GREAT Utilities!
I downloaded "CopyThisPath" and "NewFolderHere"
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I hadn't been to that site for awhile. When I went there to find a link to answer your question I poked around. Ended up downloading ten toys I couldn't live without trying.
-- Thaas
I enthused too soon.
Both of these utilities, when activated, kill the double-click file opening function for any associations you have customized.
So to the trash bin :-(
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
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| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
It probably doesn't have to do with the operating system. Having individual directories for single files sounds as if the file structure was automatically created by some braindead program.
Dunno if this helps you, but "find . -type f" will print out a list of complete paths to *all* regular files below the current directory. Available with many other (IMO sometimes essential) utilities at
Of course that's all strictly command-line stuff.
--Daniel
That's strange. I've been using both for the last year or so and never had a problem. Bears investigation. Would you like some links to file association repair utilities?
-- Thaas
Okay, now I see what you're talking about. Seems to work differently depending on how far into a folder tree you are.
At the desktop it adds CopyThisPath and NewFolderHere below the default action for folders. For files it puts CopyThisPath & NewFolderHere at the top of the context menu and moves the default action down, but the default is still emboldened and still works.
Dive down into a folder and for files CopyThisPath & NewFolderHere eventually stay at the top and CopyThisPath becomes the default action.
Definitely a bug. I'll report it to the Camtech guy and let you know what happens.
-- Thaas
Thanks, Thaas! It would help if you reported it also. The Camtech guy replied to me rather curtly, "No, they do not and there's no way they could", and then I replied, "Only reporting my observations".
He's probably young... I NEVER say "Can't be"... guaranteed to result in a hole in the foot ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Because the file system supports it and isn't so crap that doing so kills performance unlike on some other operating systems.
So one file in each directory is efficient?
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
This is my pet peeve about Unix in all it's guises. My short term memory is just about useless, and I wind up spending more time searching through the byzantine file system for that one crucial file than I do performing any useful work.
Bob
[snip]
Typically I receive device libraries in TAR or GZIP archives. Unarchiving they create a ton of directories which I promptly coalesce into a rational structure so I can group all the process corners, etc.
Of course, when they visit me, they can't understand anything I'm doing.
And a new PSpice look-alike proposes to have library setups like that... NO-NO!
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Not really, but it is alot easier for future programmers to work with than some proprietary binary library file format.
The nice thing about the unix filesystem is it can find its way through structures like this as fast as a special library utility could. The cost is a directory entry per file, and on average 50% of a 512 byte block.
-Chuck Harris
In an abstract form, the unix file system is identical to the Windoze file system. They both use a tree structure that can be made arbitrarily deep. For example:
/usr/local/share/ooblick/goop/yellowgoop/bin/foo..
Windoze users are used to thinking that their filesystem isn't that way, because they are used to seeing if in a pictograph form composed of folders, containing folders, containing folders...
In the above path, /usr is a folder called usr, and /usr/local is another folder called local that is inside of /usr...
There are file system explorers by the dozens on all varieties of unix. Some are made to look and feel exactly like the windows explorer. There are windows like gui's on all unix varieties of unix. Some are so closely modeled after Windows that I would bet you couldn't tell you weren't running windows.
You might think the unixes are playing catch up with windows, but they aren't, Sun and apollo were shipping fully graphic user interfaces with mice, that were very much like the windows system back when Bill was porting MSDOS to the first IBM-PCs.
-Chuck Harris
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