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Subject: Re: More cool SYS 7.0 features (was System 7.0 available from CompuServe)
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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Date: 15 May 91 21:00:07 GMT
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In article <34510@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) 
writes:
> TeachText handles color PICTs.

TeachText became *much* more useful in System 7. It does indeed display 
PICT files now, as well as generic TEXT files and its own 'ttro' files. 
When displaying a PICT, you can make a rectangle selection and copy it 
into the clipboard to be pasted into your other apps.

And another System 7 feature is especially useful with TeachText: if an 
app knows about a certain kind of document, you can just drag the document 
icon onto the app icon, like dropping a file into a folder, and the app 
will launch and open the file. So I keep an alias to TeachText in an 
always-open window, and now I can read any text file or view any PICT file 
just by dragging it onto the TeachText alias. Spiffy! I've thrown out my 
generic-text-editor DAs.

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