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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.173031.23094@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <1991Jun10.071908.8353@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun16.161917.13703@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 17:30:31 GMT

In article <1991Jun16.161917.13703@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >de-Macification of the workbench: pop-up menus and drag-and-drop application
> >launching would be a vast improvement. 

>   Drag-and-drop seems to work fine on my Mac.  Yep, here I go, just drag
> my application onto that ResEdit alias, and ResEdit opens up the application.

You'll have to explain what a "ResEdit Alias" is. Do you have to set it up
for each application? Is it the application's normal Desktop icon? You could
easily set up a program on the Amiga that implemented drag-and-drop in a
separate window.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"