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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: User definable objects in Finder 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May7.170534.14871@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 7 May 91 17:05:34 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA
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>Creating new active objects on the desktop is a feature I'd really be
>interested in.  For example I want to be able to drop a document into
>a printer icon and have it come out the right printer.  Much easier
>than using the Chooser to pick the printer.  If I've heard correctly,
>it was done on the old Xerox systems...

Yup, but as I remember you had to make a COPY of the document you
dropped into the printer otherwise the printer would gobble the
document up while printing it.  Probably bit quite a few unsuspecting
users.