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From: francis@daisy.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: User definable objects in Finder 7.0
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Date: 9 May 91 08:15:18 GMT
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In-Reply-To: sw@nan.co.uk's message of 8 May 91 19: 41:23 GMT

In article <0101000D.0vxryg@nan.co.uk> sw@nan.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin) writes:

   In article <1991May7.170534.14871@potomac.ads.com>, jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:

   > >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,

I thought this was being done.  No?

Y'know, you could do this for other things, too.  Take a file, drag it
to the mailbox icon (which represents a fake printer driver--assuming,
as I say, this is currently OK), and it gets "printed"--actually, of
course, the message gets sent.

Reading would be harder...

Perhaps a fake disk drive?


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