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The
appears in the center of a w i ndow ' s move bar. rt shows the
Drive Identifier
drive letter of the open dri ve, in this case hard d i sk drive C.
The
you what type of fi les are displayed i n the w i ndow. You can
File Mask tells
set the File Mask to d i splay all the fil e s in a directory, or you can set up
restrictions on the types of fi les displayed. The w i ndow di splays an icon for each
folder in the directory , and for every fi le i n the d i rectory that matches the fi le
mask setting. For more detai led i nformation on sett i ng the File Mask, see
Mask
in
Chapter 4, A Guided Tour of the Desktop.
The
Information Line
space used by the contents of the d i rectory ) , and I tems (the number of fi les and
folders residing within the directory ) . If some i tems are selected, the numbers
refer only to the selected items. The other elements of a w indow are explained in
the following tutorial sect ions.
On the right and bottom sides of the w indow there are
to view portions of the w i ndows contents, when a l l of the contents are not v i sible.
There are several buttons for contro l ling the w i ndow. The
w indow when you c l ick on it. The
the ful l screen. The
Resize button
Ope ning and C l osing a Window
D irectory w i ndows can be opened in several ways by using the poi nter and left
mouse button. You can practice openi n g a w i ndow now. First, make sure the
Language disk i s i n drive A , then double c l i c k on the drive A i con.
You have opened a w i ndow by double c l icking on a desktop icon. The contents of
the Language disk now appear in the drive A d i rectory w i ndow.
d i splays the B ytes U sed ( total n u mber of bytes of disk
Full button
allows you to drag a w indow to size .
Part II: Using the Desktop
that a l l ow you
scroll bars
Close button
resizes the w indow so that it u ses
The
Desktop
GEM
Set File
closes the
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