From: Simon Wilcox Date: 11:57 on 09 Feb 2008 Subject: Windows & Thunderbird to the headmaster's office immediately please Right then you two. Stand there. Stop fidgeting. Get your hands out of your pockets Thunderbird ! I don't care which of you two are responsible for this, it's just not acceptable behaviour in this computer and I won't tolerate it. Now Windows, what is it with this FTP extension in Windows Explorer ? It's all very flashy and "convenient" for your user but it would appear that Mr Thunderbird over here doesn't know what to do with it. Why is it that when I drag and drop a file from any normal drive onto a new email message Thunderbird attaches it but when I drag and drop from an ftp location it doesn't ? I wouldn't mind if that were all but it's not all is it ? Stop shuffling your feet and look at me you two ! Would either of you be able to tell me which of you is responsible for DELETING the file from the ftp location instead of COPYING it from the location as you two manage to do everywhere else ? AND can you explain WHY IT IS that that file IS NOT attached to the email message is JUST LOST ????? Anyone ? Anyone ? I thought not. I will not tolerate my programmes behaving in such a disagreeable way. Detention every day until one of you owns up. Dismissed.
From: Peter da Silva Date: 15:57 on 09 Feb 2008 Subject: Re: Windows & Thunderbird to the headmaster's office immediately please Extensions in Windows Explorer do not actually plug in through the file system. They only show up in Windows Explorer. No other program can see them. DO NOT USE these hateful things.
From: Aristotle Pagaltzis Date: 16:34 on 09 Feb 2008 Subject: Re: Windows & Thunderbird to the headmaster's office immediately please * Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2008-02-09 17:05]: > Extensions in Windows Explorer do not actually plug in through > the file system. Yeah, just like links. Instead of putting symlinks in the file system API, they just made up a file format and .lnk extension that Explorer treats specially. Hooray. Regards,
From: numien Date: 17:52 on 09 Feb 2008 Subject: Re: Windows & Thunderbird to the headmaster's office immediately please Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > Yeah, just like links. Instead of putting symlinks in the file > system API, they just made up a file format and .lnk extension > that Explorer treats specially. Hooray. I was surprised to find Cygwin actually understands .lnk links natively as symlinks. Tiny bit of unix to dull the Windows pain. Unfortunately nothing else does. Even using them in an Save (and friends) dialog doesn't quite work right -- it follows them on a double-click, but now your file is named after the link instead of the (often useful) default. Because, after all, Explorer using its own extensions consistently would be far too useful.
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