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From: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System Extension Ideas...
Message-ID: <13578@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 25 May 91 07:14:00 GMT
References: <29835@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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X-Local-Date: Sat, 25 May 91 00:14:00 PDT

In article <29835@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0831c@prism.gatech.EDU (William Moss) writes:
>For the creative programmer,
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
>A "New File" Option for the Finder. Pull down the file menu, and the mac
>presents you with a scrolling list of all of the applications on the mounted
>volumes.  After selecting an application, and typing a filename, the app
>launches and creates a new blank document already named whatever you named
>it.

Isn't this exactly what the "Stationery" feature of System 7.0 does?
You make a document (blank if you want) using your application.  Get
Info on it and check the "Stationery" check box.  Close it up.  Whenever
you open this document now, Finder prompts you for a name, copies it,
and opens the application.  Pretty neat huh?  (Boy those System 7
engineers thought of everything!)

>
>I have already found System 7, the extensions manager, and understudy all
>wonderfully usefull.  I'm also waiting anxiously for HAM.
>
>Thanks,
>wMoss
>-- 
>William Moss                     Disclaimer: I speak for myself.
>wMoss
>--

-- James

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