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From: robert@texas.esd.sgi.com (Robert Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Do somthing with a directory besides viewing
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Date: 26 Jun 90 22:22:34 GMT
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In article <9006261127.AA07184@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>,
root@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes:
|> 
|> If I click on a directory below, I want to startup my appliation, not
open the
|> directory.  Workspace does not seem to recognize these two matches. 
What am I
|> doing bad ?
|> 
|> TYPE SkullDirectory
|>         MATCH dircontains(".SkullDir");
|> #       MATCH glob("D.Skulls");
|>         CMD OPEN echo $LEADER
|>         ICON
|>         {
|>         include("SkullDir.fti");
|>         }
|> 
|> 
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(Betsy may followup with a definitive response later, but for now:)

The open/alt-open/etc.. rules for directories were originally
interpreted like other files, but are now hard-coded in the
workspace.  Performance increased *dramatically* because directory
rules are used so extensively.  The performance increase was considered
worth the loss of flexibility.

(Page 2-10 of "Programming the IRIS WorkSpace" mentions this.)

I believe the workspace-heads are working on relaxing this condition.

Robert Skinner
robert@sgi.com

	I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's; 
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