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From: howie@ssc-vax.UUCP (Howard S Modell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: User definable objects in Finder 7.0
Summary: it's a feature!
Message-ID: <3934@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 91 16:52:49 GMT
References: <1991May2.115300.2662@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, Seattle WA
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In article <1991May2.115300.2662@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) writes:
> yesterday I discovered a very interessting thing. I have an alias for resedit in
> the 7.0 apple menu items folder. I accidentally dragged some file over it just
> like you drag something over the trash. The resedit icon went highlited. "Oh"
> i thought, "a neat feature, what happens if I 'drop' things into it?"
> Guess what, Resedit opened with the given file.

According to the Overview of System 7.0 in the June issue of MacUser
(I just got mine yesterday), this is a general feature of Finder
7.0.

BTW, the Overview I cite is a nice one, at least from the
perspective of someone like myself who hasn't had the privilege of
playing with the 7.0 Beta copies.