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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: talking to finder
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Date: 28 Aug 90 00:16:06 GMT
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I'd like to be able to drag a document onto an Application, and have that open
the Application with the document.

It requires no file system context (i.e. icon files, desktop database) and is
(to me) far more 'intuitive' than double clicking.

I would like to be able to put all my main applications on the desktop and just
drag stuff onto them.

Hey Dave, is this why you're moving to system software? If you get an office
in VG6, let me know and I'll come over to visit.

By the way, why couldn't we use MessageCenter to implement a more general form
of IAC than the 'open documents' message?

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu