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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple IIgs capability
Message-ID: <10917@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Sep 89 23:36:02 GMT
References: <474@ncelvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <474@ncelvax.UUCP> charles@ncelvax.UUCP (Charles R. Lindsey Jr.) writes:
>That applications, a number of them anyway, can not be launched by
>clicking the folder.  Is this true, or is this more smoke?

Not by clicking a folder containing them, but rather by clicking on the
icon representing the actual executable file.  You can arrange a large
number of these as residing directly on the desktop, to avoid having to
thread your way through a hierarchy of folders before you can invoke
them.  I find that over 95% of the time I click on such a "global" icon
to launch the application.  You can also configure classes of files,
using name patterns, types, and auxiliary types, so that clicking on a
file icon for that class will fire up a DIFFERENT application with that
file provided as input.  For example, to edit an icon file I just click
on it and an icon editor application starts up, with the particular icon
file already open.

The Mac may have some advantages, but the IIGS Finder environment is not
far behind in functionality.

Your salesman may get bigger commissions on Mac sales than on GS sales.