Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!mwca!bill From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: TT desktop & prices Message-ID: <1703@mwca.UUCP> Date: 17 Sep 90 23:28:15 GMT References: <7739@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <2295@atari.UUCP> <1990Sep14.140529.1831@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 22 In article steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: >... >I would like to see a Desktop that allowed me to drag a data file to a >program icon. That would let me install my own print output formatter >or communications program on the Desktop as if it were a device. I believe >the IXI desktop for Unix works that way -- perhaps others do, too... > Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota Gemini (shareware alternative desktop widely available) supports dragging file(s) to desktop icons to pass as parameters - I do this all the time with MicroEmacs. Neodesk 3 claims this feature, I believe. Will someone please holler here when they actually get a Neodesk 3? -- ################################################################################ # Bill Sheppard -- bills@microware.com -- {uunet,sun}!mcrware!mwca!bill # # Microware Systems Corporation --- OS-9: Seven generations beyond __/_!! # #######Opinions expressed are my own, though you'd be wise to adopt them!#######