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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is there a defacto standard for 'drop ins'?
Message-ID: <0B010004.ma805a@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 00:02:41 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP
Organization: Peirce Software
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I think drop-ins can be very useful at times, but I hope that with
System 7, people will start thinking about using AppleEvents to do
some of this type of thing too.

It would be nice to be able to ask a spell checker app to check something
for us for example.  Or a data compression app to compress something, etc.

This demands acceptance of some standard AppleEvents to make this work
of course.

-- michael

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