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From: cms2839@isc.rit.edu (a.stranger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Does FileManager understand DDE ???
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.184654.24001@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 18:46:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.100942.18657@daimi.aau.dk> <1991Jun12.215405.17084@hyper.hyper.com>
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In article <1991Jun12.215405.17084@hyper.hyper.com> bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,) writes:
>
>Yes.  It talks to the Program Maneger.  If you drag an
>executable icon from a File Manager window to the Program
>Manager, it gets "installed" in the group dragged to.  DDE is
>used for the inter-process communication.
>

				sorta . the method in which FM and PM
does this is kind of " meta-DDE " ; a proprietary method which may or
may not be standardized in later versions . you can't really do it with
straight DDE .


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