On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Richard Sharpe wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking about this some more, and it seems to me that we should do > something like the following before trying to actually save the file or do > anything else: > > 1. If the save name is the same as the capture file name, put up a dialog > box and dissallow it as we do for one case currently. This should be for > all cases, even for a temp file, because some LUSER might have patiently > typed in the temp capture file name.
Hmm, OK, I hoisted this, and am building now, so lets see what happens. > 2. If that passes, then lstat (or whatever it is under Win32) the file to > see if it exists, and if so, pop up a dialog box asking if the user really > knows what they are doing. This is a bit more work. > Only after these two have been checked should do the normal stuff. > > However, it is likely that there are other places where the user wants to > save things where it might be appropriate to check is they know they are > overwriting files. > > Regards > ----- > Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Ethereal-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev > -- Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
