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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Files in use ...
From:       weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date:       1999-02-05 13:56:02
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Hi,

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Matt Koss wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to implement this the way some download managers are doing.
> I have already started some work on this.
> 
> These managers add to all currently downloaded files another extension, like
> ..part for example ( partial download )
> This way you know, that file has not been yet fully downloaded.
> After that it will put this extension away.
> 
> We could easily use new mime-type for .part files ( with a new icon etc. )

Not bad. That wont help with Netscape, but at least with KFMIII.

Cool.

Bye
Torben

> On Pi, 05 feb 1999, weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >is there any way to find out wether one file is currently in
> >the process of being written ?
> >
> >KFMIII could then show an animated icon perhaps :-)
> >Then people can see which files are currently being downloaded
> >from the Web. Sometimes I want to delete files which Netscape
> >if currently downloading. Some special icon could tell me:
> >This file is opened for writing ...
> >
> >Bye
> >Torben
> >
> >PS: The operation must be fast, otherwise it is uninteresting
> --
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